Tarkovsky Movies Quotes

#1. I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Garry Kasparov

#3. Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that.

Charlie Day

#5. I paint as the mood takes me- it is an emotional release. But in this society moods and images can incriminate you. Writing is much safer for me. I can hide myself behind a maze of words and the details of people's lives.

Ma Jian

#6. Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

James E. Talmage

#7. The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. could tell that one of the Russian proverbs he loved was on the way. 'The only place with free cheese is a mousetrap

A.D. Miller

#9. There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.

Danny Boyle

#10. Sometimes it seems as if the universe wants to be noticed!!!

John Greenleaf Whittier