Author of quotes: Kira Muratova

Art protects against chaos, even showing the chaos.

Receive the award - a mixed feeling as if the child was invited to a Christmas tree and give gifts. You know what they say: good, when praised, bad when abused, but worst of all, when long praised or scolded for a long time.

No, I'm not above the fray, I take the side of Ukraine. I don't like what she fights, but I don't know how to get out of it - in those standards in which mankind lives: "we Must defend our territory, we must fight!". But no territory, is not worth for her to kill, even if this territory called home. Humanity loves to fight, it sees this heroism, those who do not want to fight, it condemns. But there are, unfortunately, very little. Little pacifists. Someone doesn't care, but someone seems to be - well, how else. Many people simply do not believe that a world without war is possible. Why flutter if nothing has changed.

Politics is fight fight fight.

In the ideological, as I call it, the age in Odessa, it was decided to open the door without asking who it is. We were so poor, that Rob us was useless, and hence there was nothing to fear. So in those days at home there were many beggars who knocked at the apartment and asked for alms. There was a day when I pooped some chores, went to open the door, he saw another hobo angry and his face slammed her. He, poor man, even say nothing had just opened his mouth, gave a sigh, and I sigh interrupted him. It would seem, nonsense, nothing terrible happened, he went into the next apartment and got what I wanted, but this moment firmly etched in my memory. His breath and slamming my door... it happens to all of us, when we don't allow ourselves to feel pity, and then feel remorse.

In progress and the ability to somehow fix the person I never really believed. Or just not think about it. And then she decided to put that art is art, life is life, and they revolve each in its spiral. The science may be developing. The rest isn't. Well, what can be progress if there was a Nero, and then Stalin? It turns out that, except for the form of clothing, outfit, nothing has changed. Similar twists of history - the brightest proof. So, no, it is not my task to make the viewer something to think about. The most I can do is give the head itself. And hope that I will turn away visitors, it would be too bold. I don't even hope to be able to turn it towards the cinema, not to mention some emotional outbursts. I'm a person raised in an ideological age, when my films were placed on the shelf and about any audience speech did not exist. I must say that when the Soviet regime is gone, nothing fundamentally has changed. My movies still looks very narrow circle of people. So I nowhere call. Some things attract me, and I talk about them suffering, bake, make a movie, but do not set themselves ambitious targets. Even removing the "Asthenic syndrome", I do not believe that he will change or someone somewhere will call. Although I really wanted to shout at the top of his lungs about the poor dogs that are killed in the slaughter house. But it was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. No, I don't believe in progress.

- Actually I can't stand the arrogance of a person who considers himself the crown of creation, the Acme of perfection. Mind you, it was he himself so exalted, and yet he is much more cruel to those living beings who eat, to be satisfied, and not to another and torture. So I feel sorry for the animals because we pulled them out of the environment, was drawn into their lives and made helpless, dependent on us, and required any claims. Yes, I feel sorry for their elementary, and the feeling is akin to those who are experiencing all sorts of poor old women who keep themselves around twelve cats and feed them.
- Kira, in your opinion, a person becomes better in the process of evolution? [Nina Kataeva]
- Yes in any way, why would it: the higher they climb, the lower bryaknet. Usually with the primitive society and compare our life, but I'm sorry, do not understand what those people were worse than us. And the computers they were just not needed.

I think that I'm just reading human characters, in which many different components. You know, Russian people are very serious, and this seriousness arise such traits of his character, as providesto, boosterist, pravdoljubtsa. Easy attitude to life, of course, much more pleasant: Yes, we are not going to discover which of us is right, well, zamnem for clarity - then, as they say, to each his own.

Man is a mystery and Enigma. Not me, but every man.

I used to think these silly conversations about the division of women's and men's Director. A after the restructuring has been in the French women's film festival in Cretel. And I know that this is a women's movie? It was very sarcastic, angry and cynical, and not sentimental, not a lady and not as tender as I expected. It was as a slave who escaped to freedom and revenge.

To tell a movie is stupid. It's like would you tell me what love is.

I noticed that was petty as to resent the past.

The most beautiful life with the most beautiful love still ends with death. And disease.