Art

“The Abakans were a kind of bridge between me and the outside world.”

“I want to be painting every day.”

“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery.”

“It is a question of developing a personal language.”

“I think artists have the power to introduce or challenge an idea effectively.”

“This is the marvellous thing about theatre. The audience continually relates it to their own lives.”

“La literatura refleja las ideas vigentes en una sociedad, y es expresión de ella.”

“This little picture gave me the first glimmerings of atmosphere.”

“Making a film is an art. And so if you want to make good films, you have to trust one another.”

“I have to thank you very sincerely for the excellent quotation you were good enough to improvise for my picture.”

“I am a poet and not a politician.”

“Walau aku sudah mati, aku akan hidup 1,000 tahun lagi.”

“I may follow a script for my on-screen roles, but the attitude that I carry is my own and that is original.”

“Acting is never boring.”

“The only way for us to become great, and even, if it is possible, inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”

“Як я уявляю, гарний фільм повинен будуватися як музичний твір.”

“Ja mam tyle pieniędzy, że on ma być we wszystkich stylach.”

“It all comes down to the quality of the song.”

“The concept of originality is completely relative.”

“When you do these factory films, as I call them, these mainstream films, you try to improve in terms of logic, in terms of production, editing, acting, scriptwriting, in terms of all the aspects of filmmaking.”