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.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.

The visionary is the only realist.