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

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

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

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

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

When an actor comes to you and starts working with the script, the image of his character that you had in your mind gets substituted with an image of…

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

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

- Andrey Zvyagintsev

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

- Andrey Zvyagintsev