“We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.”

“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”

“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”

“There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.”

“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.”

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”

“Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.”