Author of quotes: Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev

The viewer expects sincerity, talk about himself, about what is happening to him, about his fears and hopes, abysses and heights. For example, I am the viewer who does not read film annotations, I know that something interesting and new can be expected from this author, and I come to the cinema for a dream. When you go to bed, you cannot read the annotation for a future dream, you just see it. Roughly the same thing happens with the viewer: he comes into the hall and will be happy to plunge into the unknown, disturbing him like a bad dream, or, on the contrary, like a dream. Since ancient times, people have been interpreting their dreams, trying to understand what lessons this dream gives them. Roughly the same thing happens to the viewer when he leaves the cinema: he entered the hall alone, and left changed. And he begins to think, involuntarily build connections, he ponders, compares what he saw with his own gaze, passes through himself this other people's experience, because the author's efforts, his sincerity, depth and artistic honesty in his relationship with the world bring him into such revelations that often a person I would have been ready to say it myself. You know how it happens, you read a book and think: "Me too, I also thought about this!" But only you do not know how to turn it into a form. Or is it not your task. And it also happens that the artist will give you a revelation about yourself and for this new value for you you will be grateful to him for a long time; how do you thank that dream that took you away from trouble or told something that you will not read in books.

You can't call yourself a director at 18. Just because you don't have any life experience yet. Neither the trauma of parting, nor the experience of reflections, nor fundamental disappointments, there is nothing yet; your language is still borrowed; you can, inspired by someone, repeat his style, retell similar stories, imitating the handwriting of an idol; admire someone - and this happens to any future artist. All poets caught themselves on the fact that they began, imitating Tsvetaeva, Brodsky or someone else, however, having matured, having filled their hand, and therefore, "having filled the bumps", having received an education not only at the student's bench, but also in life itself, one should realize that that you are not an epigone or simulacrum, that you need to create your own space - your own, not borrowed. And this is the most valuable thing, but it also requires courage. Courage assumes that you are not afraid to reveal yourself. And the willingness to show such courage indicates that there is something to show.

An actor can wait all his life, like a bride, for his director. Someone who sees in him his own gift. And if the director is the one who constructs the building of the concept, then the actor is the one who inhabits it. And it often happens that the actor is uncomfortable in the “building” where the director invited him. You have to adapt, adjust, find the strength to find yourself in a space alien to you. But it also happens that you find each other. It is necessary and possible to find those with whom you are on the way. And it is a great joy, if not a necessity, to find comrades-in-arms, like-minded people, partners. I'm talking now about the creative group as a whole, and this is the operator, the screenwriter, the artists, the sound engineers, and the production department. That is, a large and well-coordinated team. You can spend many years on this, or maybe get lucky when you found each other from your first film. It is important for young people who are looking for themselves to find partners. It gives you the joy of joint creativity and support - you are not alone. Almost everyone I met on The Return and The Exile is still working with me. It is very important to find people of your blood type, your composition, your rhythm.

To know the human heart is not given to anyone. Only by their fruits.

The devil did to job, which allowed him a God: "Do with it what you want, but his soul do not touch". The person who wrote it thousands of years ago, knew that God could allow to do anything with you. To cut with an axe, chop with a knife, slandered, thrown into dungeons, but your soul will not touch, because the man can carry only the man himself.

One should not treat the cinema as reality, as the chronicle newspaper, that's the way of the world, given to us in order to understand ourselves, makes us think over their destiny.

It is necessary to remove the heart, absolutely sincerely and as honestly treating material, to ourselves and to the future viewer.

The film is the thought of thought, it is a reason to search for answers.

True humanism is to speak in all candor and without equivocation.

The screen provides the opportunity to observe an outsider, not in the moment when he is presented with the best, great parties and like to be near him when he's not thinking that he was being watched.

People have always been concerned about the issue of money. But only recently have the feeling that, in addition to money, in the minds of people there is nothing left.

"Lack of love" or "love" - it's just clear to all, without feelings. And dislike is a direct reference to the void, bellbowrie status... I said "friendly feeling", and whether it is clear? Maybe we only think we know what are we talking about when we talk about it. It seems that only the ancient Greeks really knew what love is. You know, in their language, five or seven names to this feeling, this human condition.