What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of love. It's not a question of mutual love: what … - Andrei Tarkovsky

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What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of love. It's not a question of mutual love: what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment, it is nothing.

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About Andrei Tarkovsky

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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What is the essence of the director's work? We could define it as sculpting in time. Just as a sculptor takes a lump of marble, and, inwardly conscious of the features of his finished piece, removes everything that is not a part of it — so the film-maker, from a 'lump of time' made up of an enormous, solid cluster of living facts, cuts off and discards whatever he does not need, leaving only what is to be an element of the finished film, what will prove to be integral to the cinematic image.

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