Andrei Tarkovsky Quote

No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components rather arbitrarily, dividing it up artificially or the sake of theoretical discussion.


p. 114 - Sculpting in Time (1986)


No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components...

No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components...

No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components...

No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components...