Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  People, Purpose, Causes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Theatre, Needs, Action

  "Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1989.

• Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Movie, Art, Able

• IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Past, Being Real

• IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY DISTINGUISHABLE STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS. RHYTHM MUST ARISE NATURALLY IN A FILM, A FUNCTION OF THE DIRECTOR'S INNATE SENSE OF LIFE AND COMMENSURATE WITH HIS QUEST FOR TIME.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Giving, Individuality

• MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Jobs, Ideas

• I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Memories, Emotional

• 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.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Giving, Needs, His Love

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 200), 1986.

• Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Running, Doe, Different

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