Focus on Stalker

“One can discern in this film similarities to a Platonic dialogue in which poetry and philosophy are found next to one another.

Here in fact we are witnessing not a journey but a form of conversation in which the heroes uncover their inner worlds.

My impression is that true philosophers are always poets and vice-versa.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Footnotes

The interview fragments linked from this page are taken from the book 7 ½, ili filmy Andreia Tarkovskovo and The Tolstoy Complex. The latter is a collection of Polish translations of Tarkovsky's interviews; original translators' names, if applicable, are shown in square brackets following the references. English (re)translation by Jan at Nostalghia.com.