Some actors come to casting and ask me, "Didn't you see my previous roles?" We do not work with actors like this. Their previous roles do not matter;…

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be tol…

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a great extent, the film is a mythological look on human…

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

I wouldn't say I'm fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don't like it when people say that…

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a …

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just g…

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able t…

- Andrey Zvyagintsev