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Little plots and stories, acted out and screened, can't possibly be called cinema. They have nothing whatever to do with cinema. A cinematographic work is above all a work which would not be possible in any other art form. In other words, it can be created by means of cinema, and cinema alone.

Andrei Tarkovsky

from Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986 (01.23.1973)