“Cinema, as Tarkovsky has shown, has vast potential to move into the depths. Yet it uses them just as infrequently as television uses its capacities. Rarely do we see on the screen something that enriches our soul, and doesn’t pull it out onto the surface, onto the field of petty passions. Of course, art cannot avoid passion. But great art shows that both passion and passionlessness of the spirit create a certain battlefield, a battlefield for the depths and surface.”
– Gregory Pomerants, Russian essayist and philosopher, in Dmitry Trakovsky’s documentary Meeting Andrei Trakovsky