No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components rathe… - Andrei Tarkovsky

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.