When less than everything has been said about a subject, yo… - Andrei Tarkovsky

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When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part.
What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?

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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.

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Birth Name: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky

Native Name: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский

Alternative Names: Andrej Tarkovskij • Andrei Tarkovski • Andrej Tarkovszkij • And. Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky • Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskĭi • Andrei Tarkovskij • Andreĭ Arsenévich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrey Tarkovsky • Andreĭ Arsen'evich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrej Tarkowskij • Andreiĭ Arsen'evich Tarkovskiĭ • Andrei Arsen'evich Tarkovskii

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The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

All that I wanted was to tempt into life things that wanted to come out of me.

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