For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of faith, attain to a sense of community ….

I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has s….

Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room o….

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality..

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying..

I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a m….

Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There….

The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative ….

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful..

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer..

I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkne….

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generati….

I could always live in my art but never in my life.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of ….

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about….

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop..

This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art..

I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensi….

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then,….

Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, impris….