First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.