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Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes about Writing

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If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

Andrei Tarkovsky
Writing, Mean, Trying
"Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Andrei Tarkovsky
Motivational, Writing, Mean
"Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 88), 1986.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?

Andrei Tarkovsky
Writing, Men, Doubt
"Fictional character: Pisatel". "Stalker", www.imdb.com. May 1979.

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