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.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

You exist only in what you do.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.