Andrei Tarkovsky

is interested in making whoever sees his films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

is interested in making films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

is the greatest director, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media.

When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.

is able to move with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow?

Andrei Tarkovsky, n.Definitions

Andrei Tarkovsky