Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

All art is autobiographical.

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.