Cinema’s Thoreau Is Begging You Not to Make Another Movie or Write Another Book
5 min readAug 23, 2019
Victor Kossakovsky has no time for fools, especially when it comes to directors and cinema. He’s even came up with ten rules for would-be helmers, the main one being: “Don’t film if you can live without filming.”
He nods. It’s 10:30 AM, and the no-frills Russian filmmaker, with his graying beard, disheveled silver locks, and…