Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose
Tarkovsky, Andrei. Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986. Translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair, Verso, 1993.
He was caught and executed by the Ottoman Turks. While he lost his life, his revolution finally succeeded.
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russian filmmaker, theatre director, writer, and film theorist. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of Russian and world cinema. His films explored spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.