Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

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

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.

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

The visionary is the only realist.