Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.