Tarkovsky reminds me of a sergeant from the time of Turgenev - he is very pleasant and extremely prepossessing and at the same time visionary and elusive. One cannot 'catch' him anywhere because he is always at a slightly different place already. This is simply the type of person he is. When I understood that I stopped bothering. This director cannot be reshaped anymore, and first of all one cannot convince him of anything as he is going to recast everything in his 'own way' no matter what.

I have to make it clear, however, that I haven't seen the whole film except for 20 minutes of the second part although I know the screenplay very well because …

Dopoki nie skorzystalem z Internetu, nie wiedzialem, ze na swiecie jest tylu idiotow. I didn't know that there are so many idiots, until I began using Internet.

My Kelvin decides to stay on the planet without any hope whatsoever while Tarkovsky created an image where some kind of an island appears, and on that island a…

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment o…

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.