In all the greatest artists and their crushing tragic works, there is always hope.

Something essential I learned from Tarkovsky was how he saw the Cinematography of 'Ivan's Childhood' as competent and nice yet he didn't believe it stirred much within him. Then he compares how he chose to shoot in such a way that evoked his own memories, there was an intuition that drove the visual language of the films after Ivan. I think, because he embraced this method, the audience connects to the visuals more ardently as well. I can't make sense of it all but I know it to be true.