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“Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.”

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Andrey Zvyagintsev is a renowned Russian film director born on February 6, 1964. His works are known for their profound themes and unique narrative style, and he has won numerous awards at international film festivals. more

“I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have become a stratified, different, exotic beast, even more so than I was when I was a young gay man. I just sort of built on that. Now that I've made several films, I don't even know how to placate them with money like so many people do with their families.”

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Author:Duncan Roy

“Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a long time without changing an angle, and allow you to do that along with them.”

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Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev

“I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.”

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Author:Duncan Roy

“When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me.”

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Author:Duncan Roy

“I just absolutely go for it when somebody says, "No, you can't have this." That's why I spent my entire life sucking off straight men. "Okay, so you think you're straight, do you? We'll see about that."”

Thinking Men Okay Life Sucks

Author:Duncan Roy

“As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically drawn to you. It's a symbiosis whether you like it or not.”

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Author:Duncan Roy

“I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.”

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Author:Duncan Roy

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