Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Nobody ever accused me of being objective.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

The camera is as subjective as we are.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

Comedy is a weird thing. You have to understand, it's the weirdest thing you can do. There's no consensus. It's not like... People say, "I saw Saving Private Ryan, and that scene on the beach is just so moving." I can't imagine anyone who would say "I don't find that moving!" But you can show, whether it's Laurel & Hardy or the Three Stooges or Jiminy Glick In Lalawood, some people are going to look at it and say "That's the funniest thing I've ever seen." Some people will say "I don't get it." Who's right, who's wrong?

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.