Solaris

“Solaris. I'm a great admirer of the guy who wrote the book it's based on, Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer... I revisited it and came to love it very much. Love all of his movies but I like this one in particular and this fantastic sort of production design of kind of a crappy spaceship that they all live on. I often wonder how I feel about the very final shot of this movie which I won't give away but I sometimes feel like maybe it wasn't necessary.”

“The master, the master. Okay. I haven't pulled down a Tarkovsky yet, you know.”

“Solaris, which is great. Solaris was made just a little bit later than Kubrick's 2001. Tarkovsky wanted to do a film that was more emotionally engaged with you. He felt Kubrick's film was rather cold and a piece of wonderful technology but had little to engage you with emotionally. Personally, I think Solaris is the best science fiction film probably ever made and the most profound.”