It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas. (Andrei Tarkovsky)

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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