Film

“I always want the camera to be someone.”

“I steal from every movie ever made.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“the creative treatment of actuality”

“The idea that the director pulls a performance, it’s not like that.”

“Everything I did in films, I truly lived.”

“The filmmaking comes from God.”

“If the making of a movie is not a journey of discovery, I suspect it will be a dog.”

“Film adalah hasil industri barang perdagangan, hasil cipta kebudayaan, dan alat propaganda, alat penerangan, alat pendidikan.”

“As a filmmaker, I have a duty in helping my society to progress.”

“Since I started doing cinema I have been making one movie; I haven’t changed.”

“Student films come in three sizes: too long, much too long and very much too long.”

“The camera — the film camera — is like the eye of God. I feel I belong there.”

“Never tell them what you can show them.”

“Tragedy needs a strong storyteller, otherwise it doesn’t exist.”

“You should know about economics, not tracking shots.”

“Every one of my movies is a personal movie.”