The image is indivisible and elusive, dependent upon our consciousness and on the real world which it seeks to embody. If the world is inscrutable, then the image will be so too. It is a kind of equation, signifying the correlation between truth and the human consciousness, bound as the latter is by Euclidean space. We cannot comprehend the totality of the universe, but the poetic image is able to express that totality.
― Andrei Tarkovsky
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Once you start to speak of things that are precious, you are immediately anxious about how people will react to what you have said, and you want to protect these things, to defend them against incomprehension.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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[So the Zone lets the good through and kills the evil?] I don't know. I don't believe that. I think it lets through those who've lost all hope. Not the good or the bad, but the unhappy.
― Andrei Tarkovsky
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It is time for a new direction.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
[Last words, as reported by his wife.]
New restoration of Stalker; by Janus Films
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Nostalghia; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1983
Nostalghia is a film about waiting, about the long journey before the arrival.
— Ian Maxton
