The Meaning Of Attention

What we pay attention to is what we have a relationship with

Here is a reflection by the Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky, above, about the legendary nine-minute scene that concludes Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 film Nostalghia:

I had just arrived in Rome. I was met by Tarkovsky, who I knew only slightly. That in itself was a miracle in those days: I suddenly found myself in Rome–not as a tourist, I had come to work, “out …