All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

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.

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.

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.