I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.
Andrei TarkovskyA man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that heโs worth something. And if I know for sure that Iโm a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?
Andrei Tarkovsky