When it comes to the goal, the meaning, then, unfortunately, other people’s destinies are also involved in your business. And here you have to be a tyrant. It’s cruel in a way. But cruelty coupled with pity.
I often repeat this remark of Hamlet*. When it comes to the goal, the meaning, then, unfortunately, other people’s destinies are also involved in your business. And here you have to be a tyrant. In my case, it’s about making movies. Cinema is a combination of concepts, things, images that have not been developed to their absolute. If all components are absolute, then they will not connect with each other.
Why «out of pity I must be cruel»? Because I think about the whole, I have to suppress the particulars, such a cruel thing. On the way to his main act, Hamlet had to perform actions that were fraught with cruelty. In fact, this is the cruelty of a great doctor and a great politician. Cruelty coupled with pity. When a doctor must heal a person through pain. When a politician is forced to lead circumstances through tragedy so that the nation does not perish.
* W. Shakespeare «Hamlet, Prince of Denmark», translated by M. Lozinsky. ABC classic, 2007.