Most filmmakers want to defeat time, to saddle it like an old horse, and it seems to these directors that on this old horse, within this huge, unlimited space, they can exist as they want, they can tame this horse using modern tricks of editing, but it’s an illusion.
— Alexander Sokurov
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
– Kafka
Notes from a Room