18 Andrei Tarkovsky from Sculpting in Time
(Copyright 1987 by Andrei Tarkovsky, used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.)
Contrary to the theories developed during the classic period of early Soviet Cinema, Tarkovsky did not believe that editing or montage created the meaning of a film. For him it was more that editing has to bring out the meaning implicit in the material that has been filmed. It was not that editing was unimportant to him but that it was an integral part of the whole process as this extract from his book underlines.
No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components rather arbitrarily, dividing it up artificially ...
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