"MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL TO THOSE OF PROSE. I WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HOW CINEMA IS ABLE TO OBSERVE LIFE, WITHOUT INTERFERING, CRUDELY OR OBVIOUSLY, WITH ITS CONTINUITY. FOR THAT IS WHERE I SEE THE POETIC ESSENCE OF CINEMA."

-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Essence Quotes

“We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?”
“You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?”
“You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.”
“What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?”
“When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.”
“I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.”

Source : "Doseone" by Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
“I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst of some kind of action. Unfortunately, they were always too quick for me. I'm still disappointed about that.”

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