“What would you like to tell young people?”

 

Learn to love solitude, to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with young people…is their carrying out noisy and aggressive actions not to feel lonely. And this is a sad thing. The individual must learn to be on his own as a child for this doesn’t mean to be alone: it means not get bored with oneself, which is a very dangerous symptom…almost a disease.

 

Andrei Tarkovksy

 

For more from the Russian filmmaker, check out Poet in Cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky.

 

Many manage to separate their life from their films. They live one way and express other ideas in their works. They are able to split their conscience. I can’t. To me cinema is not just my job: it’s my life, and each film is an act of my life.