It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
Andrei TarkovskyObjectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
Andrei TarkovskyThe only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
Andrei Tarkovsky