"To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe."
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"Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude."
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"We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal."
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"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful."
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"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."
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"Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me."
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"There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell."
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"I could always live in my art but never in my life"
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"I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality."
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"First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little."
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"I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams."
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"I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities."
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"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images."
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"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth."
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"To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated."
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"I hope I never get so old I get religious."
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"One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it."
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"When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about"
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"Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop."
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"All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up."
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