"The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable." Andrei Tarkovsky

"An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it." Andrei Tarkovsky

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”
― Fellini

“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”
― André Bazin

"Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are." Tom Hanks