Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 114
“No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art.”
—
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Sculpting in Time
And we can only talk about its components rather arbitrarily, dividing it up artificially or the sake of theoretical discussion.
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 114
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