But how can I put a name to what it is that I want? How am I to know that I really don't want what I want, or that I really don't want what I don't w… - Andrei Tarkovsky

Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.

My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.