"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

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“I donâ€™t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.”
“There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.”
“A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.137, Penguin
“When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.”

Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.
“Cloud bounded along the earth like a ball”
“Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.”
“It is typically Norwegian to be good”
“An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.”

Source : "The Pause: An Underestimated Element in Poetry". poemsoutloud.net. April 14, 2009.

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