For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
Andrei TarkovskyIt is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
Andrei TarkovskyNo 'mise en scรจne' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scรจne' turns into a sign, a clichรฉ, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.
Andrei TarkovskyWhen I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.
Andrei Tarkovsky