♦ Literature once shaped consciousness — especially poetry.

It created the inner world of a person, their spirituality.

Now we live in an era that glorifies ignorance,

and the frightening majority is ruled by mediocrity.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ On cinema:

There is no need to build frames.

A shot is a painting, a plot is a script.

The present cannot be measured.

Freedom — that is what is truly new.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ On perception:

Angles in film are as invented

as the relationship between objects and space in paintings.

In general, everything is debatable

and can take on new frames, forms, and realities…

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ On inner freedom:

Never “dive into yourself” — there are so many ways out.

One of them is the world of cinema.

It is the freedom of the inner self, the soul’s ego.

Films are something new — history, emotion, freedom, inspiration…

It’s something doctors don’t prescribe.

But it is a new “Me.”

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ A book is something in between —

between words and fiction, between the past and the future,

between images and the edge of reality.

There’s so much to say about writing.

But what is written is always something new…

Another night spent, another life, another eternity.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ Wisdom does not depend on time.

Its meaning does not fade with years.

A book is eternity.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ Art should never be deformed

for money, for family, or for other weaknesses and whims of the “self.”

There are other ways — many, and much easier.

In art, you must only keep evolving, creating, and making.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ The soul lives through countless states.

Each of them — a small, special world.

Once, in distant childhood,

many of us first felt kindness, love, happiness, courage, sincerity.

This list is endless.

And it all began with a fairy tale.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ Wisdom does not depend on time.

Its meaning does not fade with years.

A book is eternity.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ On childhood and character:

I don’t know, maybe it sounds strange,

but childhood also has its advantages.

Character, like the “self,” develops depending on place and society.

Society only influences a part of the subconscious,

while personality grows from the environment.

In that space live things, temperaments, destinies.

If a child is a genius,

they are capable of uncovering the nature of essence.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ On the book “The Dream Workshop”

“The Dream Workshop” is not an ordinary book.

It’s mysticism written through the eyes of a filmmaker.

Each chapter is a script — each could become a film.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ On dreams:

Images and visions in dreams can explain much.

Dreams are the past and the future,

states and thoughts, the sublime and the real.

One only has to pause and reflect…

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ On dreams and reality:

“The Dream Workshop” is a blend of reality and dreams.

How many times, in dreams, can we return,

search and not find — or find something,

but not what we hoped to see.

— Nadiya Karahayeva

 

♦ The true feeling of life’s breath —

is inspiration.

— Nadiya Karahayeva