All my films were made against the desires of the audience because they aim at truth and beauty rather than the spectator's satisfaction. […] [These days] producers just want to make money, they are like drug peddlers.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Solaris.

Touched by a masterpiece, a person begins to hear in himself that same call of truth which prompted the artist to his creative act. When a link is established between the work and its beholder, the latter experiences a sublime, purging trauma. Within that aura which unites masterpieces and audience, the best sides of our souls are made known, and we long for them to be freed. In those moments we recognize and discover ourselves, the unfathomable depths of our own potential, and the furthest reaches of our emotions.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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