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

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.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

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

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.