Quotes by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It’s a thing unto itself.

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Guidelines

Understanding

Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a long time without changing an angle, and allow you to do that along with them.

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Long

Moving

I wouldn’t say I’m fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don’t like it when people say that I’m particularly following the same line or that I’m only interested in family dramas. I’m interested in human relationships. The most intimate, the most delicate, and the most intriguing relationships are those within a family.

Drama

Father

Son

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that’s what brings inspiration.

Events

Inspiration

Suffering

Some actors come to casting and ask me, “Didn’t you see my previous roles?” We do not work with actors like this. Their previous roles do not matter; I need the actual work with an actor in this particular character that has been written in our script. What matters is flexibility, believability and efficiency of an actor.

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Character

Efficiency

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

Important

Important Things

There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

Answers

Giving Up

Sometimes

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Quotes by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It’s a thing unto itself.

Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a long time without changing an angle, and allow you to do that along with them.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that’s what brings inspiration.

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

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