Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.