“I have a horror of tags and labels.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky , book Sculpting in Time

Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 149
Context: I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

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