Author of quotes: Andrei Konchalovsky

What gives a person culture? Pleasure to those that enjoy another may not. This is how knowledge of language: who knows Arabic, he reads the Koran, and who knows Farsi Ferdowsi reads. Envy and so, and others.

Happiness is ...to know your boundaries, and try to transcend and expand.

If there is a miracle in the world, it is the manifestation of humanity. If I get hurt, or something I can steal - I would not be surprised. But if you do the humane thing - I'll be surprised and touched. And this is the miracle: kindness, compassion, a kind word, time to call.

And anyway, what is gender equality, I obviously do not understand: not Mature enough. Is the creation of God, nature, Yin - Yang, whatever you call it. A woman makes one man more. There are many things that a woman can, and the man - no. Two different floors and, therefore, different functions. Then you have to mix functions, but in many areas it's impossible. And attempts to violate the laws of nature mankind will be costly.

You are interested in the amount of experience gained? Once a Zen teacher gathered his disciples to share with them the amount of experience gained. He opened his mouth, and at this time on the branch sat a little bird and sang. The master looked at the bird and heard, and they all sat and listened. The bird finished and flew away. Said the master: here endeth the lesson. That was the amount of experience gained. More than the bird that sang, can't tell.

Death creeps into life unnoticed. If you do not know about the existence of death in an emergency situation, it creeps into your mind slowly. It's like a quiet knock at the door, which for a long time you don't want to miss.

Now political correctness is off the scale so that we can say here, in Russia, in Europe it is impossible to say, impossible. We have in this sense free country. We could say politically incorrect, for example, that a man should cling to a woman and the woman must resist. <...> As Lev Nikolaevich [Tolstoy] said: "the girls love, when them squeeze".

Aldous Huxley, this was the English writer, said: "the West is going to the abyss on "rolls-Royce", and Russian - in the tram". How fortunate that we did not get...

What motivates a person? Any human being is driven primarily a desire to avoid trouble. This is the law of life. Ant also wants to avoid trouble, as people. But obviously still driven by curiosity and reflection.

The Russian people have no sense of individuality, and therefore a sense of responsibility. And since the Russian people have no sense of responsibility, conversation with him can be only one: hit him with a stick on the head, and he sat down.

In Russia is very low and a common culture. Russian people with this culture, acquiring a large amount of money, it becomes the destroyer of himself and of the environment.

I believe that now is "Oscar" - like McDonald's, this multinational Corporation. And the quality of it very doubtful.

"The secret art"...
Very well on this occasion, said one writer. Our reality is the fence. The artist is trying to rise on tiptoe and see what's hidden behind it. Few have the height to reach. A second bounce, something there they thought they captured and go back. The genius manages to hang, and he begins to see something that is beyond words, but penetrates into the soul. This is similar to shamanism, but where to go?! Art, in fact, is shamanism.

Mass art is like pornography. Its mission is to excite, satisfy and forget. In the present art it is not happening. You looked up and only then begins the real internal process. To keep silent after the perception of great works of art is the greatest pleasure. Happiness for the Director when the audience leaves with the desire of someone to talk about what they saw.