For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

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

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.