“Why do we always choose the opposite of what we want? I think, because we don’t want to be dependent. For some reason, I always offered resistance. I fought against something. I defended myself, just as though I’d had someone else inside me saying: don’t give into anything, don’t go along with anything or you’ll die.”

“How terrible and ignoble to feel that you do not owe anything to anybody. Because that can never be the case. It’s an attitude that can only be adopted with great effort; by shutting your eyes.”

- Andrei Tarkovsky