As a result, Renata Litvinova accustomed us to the peculiarities of her personality. Remaining on the screen by the same woman-goddess not of this world, she surprised even the masters of the cinema with the seriousness of their business qualities.
Renata, you've already acted as a producer more than once, obviously, for you it's an excuse to feel your "materiality", because you have to deal with financial problems?
I always like to work, except for the part that deals with money relations. Infinite material battles, financial battles, non-payments, debts ... For me, this is the most painful activity. And everything else - only happiness. The production path is not entirely suitable for me, but if it is sent to you, then you must also take on this mission, otherwise the film will not move from the dead point. Being a producer is difficult. But I swear that I will be shooting pictures from which people will not leave. With such a laudable intention, you can, among other things, make good money. This can not be my main task. There must always be a higher goal. Not material. Money is a great test. Especially for those who made a fortune unexpectedly and decided that everything is sold. So not everyone passes this test. Of course, they are different in life. It seems to me that we are all here on trial.
By the way, the profession of director and producer is more male than female. The popular and extraordinary Renata Litvinova had to change something in connection with this?
Correct all the time. Without end, we must make compromises, they are inevitable in human relations. Rigidity has its limits. It borders on evil. And evil, it seems to me, is completely unprofitable. It is profitable to be kind. I do not understand what it's like to be cruel. I'm just demanding. Now you can bravely defend your right to a bright individuality, but when they were unknown, how was it?
I used to be an even more vivid personality. And then, by the way, she never defended. It just was like a liquid in a glass. You criticize me, do not criticize, still my composition will not change. It was the heavenly angels that kept me. They gave me such a strange immunity. Because people sometimes, sometimes, break. They release them from all theatrical schools, and they all speak in the same voice, it is not interesting at all. What they are doing with them - I do not know, but some punchings are coming out. And the individuality can not be killed. Although, maybe it was not there? Then it is not a pity.
Years in 18 of you, Renata, also probably put pressure ...
It's terrible. It's monstrous. I was always criticized. They said that they do not write in Russian so that it is not done this way. I defended myself like an animal. I had Professor Kira Konstantinovna Paramonova, she crossed out everything to me. All pages were in red. I went to her house, and for three hours we analyzed each sentence. I pronounced them in the air and said that it was possible. Then she answered: "When you say it, you convince me." If I changed myself, it would be inept. It would not be me. You can not betray yourself.
That popular and unorthodox Renata Litvinova was better or, on the contrary, imperfect?
Of course better! She was young, with long hair, with white shining skin, vulnerable and vulnerable. She was more beautiful than I am today.
But with age, you, Renata, probably got a punching quality.
Oh no. I do not have any breakthrough qualities. I am sincerely grateful to my heavenly custodians and I am absolutely convinced that my life has been staged from above. I was scolded at VGIK. There it was necessary to cooperate with the director's faculty, and not only did I not cooperate, I never even talked to directors. You write a sketch, go to another faculty, and they put it. I did not have a single sketch, a film, half a film. Full passionary. The main thing - I also despised them! They seemed to me somehow different. Although she studied with very funny guys. At the same time, Vanya Okhlobystin studied - super-perfect at all! I remember when he went into the army, gave a pile of poems dedicated to me. Vanya was a miracle. Then he studied Comrade Bashirov, Fedechka Bondarchuk, Roma Kachanov, director of "DMB", Lesha Samoryadov.
They must have fallen in love with you , the popular and extraordinary Renata Litvinov.
No ... Well, what friends, that's for sure. Lesha Samoryadov was so amazing, gentle. Once he came to visit him, and he bought dumplings. Oh, it was only with him that could happen. He threw them into the pan, sit, wait. And so strange - they do not come up. We took one dumplings on a spoon, and she was so heavy - crashed and rolled. We raised it, and it became clear that all the pelmeni were stuffed with iron balls. I ask: "Where did you buy this?" And he answers me so thoughtfully: "I'm coming and I think, why are they so heavy?" These balls were all Moscow courts are one time slaughtered. Someone took and sold Lesha such ravioli. In short, we did not eat pelmeni.
On the course, many of you, popular and extraordinary Renata Litvinov appreciated?
Nobody appreciated anybody. And now I, probably, should complain, say that no one treasured me, bastards. With whom you communicate - he appreciates you. And who does not communicate, says: "Fi, what a stupid Renata!" But I myself can not communicate with many, I do not have such an internal device. You communicate really selectively and accurately: your friendship with Zemfira turned out to be mutually inspiring. It seems you found a close-minded person?
In this case, I found a reliable ally. I consider Zemfira a great poet, and I love her very much. When I was shooting the "Goddess", she completely disinterestedly presented us her song and, in addition, introduced me to Igor Vdovin, who wrote the soundtrack for some very conditional money. This they once again confirmed that the great poets are people who are absolutely not material and not money-grubbers. And in the film "The Green Theater in Zemfira", we also invested our own money. The main thing is that it has a mood. Still, it's a documentary that captures an outstanding personality in a particular time. And I am convinced: Zemfira is an outstanding personality. Very nutritious. Useful for young people. I once graduated from a music school with a conservatory, and I understand music. Maybe even better than some performers. From Zemfira you accumulate very much, you are charging. Then she is a very noble person.
No wonder that ordinary people in your circle do not fall - like attracts like ...
Yeah, I only work with geniuses. Kira Muratova, Zemfira, the same Lesha Balabanov. They are not just talented - they have the courage to remain themselves. And to be free is one of the qualities of a genius. I think that almost all the great biographies are done in spite of everything - always as an exception. You can go out God knows where, to have a lot of shortcomings, you can be a freak with a speech defect, everyone will say that you are profneprigoden, and you will be the greatest. Perhaps you and Zemfira and something bloody, among other things, attracted? You also have a Tatar blood on your father, too? Yes, I'm half a Tartar. On this line I have a very difficult genus - a whole tree. We have princes and scientists there. Such is the origin. You claim that the movies are ready for many sacrifices. Where did you get such a love for him? You yourself will study the movie, and you will understand where this love comes from. It can not be explained, it's like a disease. Cinema is not reality, it is above reality.
Cinema is the second reality .
If you ask: "Why popular and unorthodox Renata Litvinova loves this person?" Not for the full sponges.
I can not say that here I was influenced by a single book or film. This squalor from me will not wait. Also what, in that case it is necessary to list the list? It seems to me strange when a book affects you. What kind of a man are you - like grass? As you podnesh, so you lie down. Remember, in Marx - "Being determines consciousness"? But he, still, was wrong. This consciousness determines being.
According to an interview with the popular and extraordinary Renata Litvinova, it is clear that she treats actors with obvious coolness.
I always say that actors are not people.
Renata, and who are the sacred monsters?
Actors - more than people ... or less. It's like two parallel worlds. I do not know about their world, and, in fact, I'm not really interested in them. There is a fate, and it is present from above. I've said that I never wanted to act. When she studied at VGIK, she always refused offers. And then she did.
And now you are an actress.
The popular and unorthodox Renata Litvinova is not an actress. It's just that Renata thinks that sometimes it coincides with the text.
I do not perceive myself as an actress. I'm kind of unfit for work, because I'm terribly wasted work. Therefore, I can not shoot a lot. Sooner or later I will finally go to literature. When tired of acting and directing. Any replicated appearance rarely corresponds to the actual, in many respects it is PR, advertising. Are you satisfied with the entrenched image of yourself?
The thing is that if you want to change this image somehow, you can do something else in the cinema. But it seems to me, I already did it. For this, of course, I was heavily criticized, however, and loved. As for journalists, they write about themselves, I'm just an excuse. When you give an interview, and then you read, you realize that this is some absolutely different person saying.
Renata, you did not notice that you can sometimes frighten off men by their strangeness?
I think I really scare men off sometimes. Not everyone, of course, but many are afraid. Well, let them be afraid if they are such fools. Apparently, there are few real men who are not scared, because you often say that matriarchy is coming.
He almost came. Not for nothing that they say that the class of a man is determined by a woman who is near him. Look at what wonderful women are now, and how many men can you say something like that? The only thing: they appropriated to themselves a lot of female qualities. They are clearly different and I would like to understand them. Sometimes, they are angry with their ruthlessness. A man can not give way, do not miss on the road, even if a woman with a child. I somehow hit one for the fact that he did not miss me on the crossing.
Renata, however, from your films comes out that you treat men with a kind of pity. Who then do not regret?
I'm sorry for women and for cats, dogs, and even men. At me all the same the basic principle of the relation to people - pity.
So, is the "principled and compassionate view" still valid? Yes, I'm sure this is my personal breakthrough. Now I look at people in terms of humanization. Recently I got to the concert, I sat in the first row, some dancers came to the stage, and I even had a huge pity for them. I thought that the girl had torn pantyhose, and she carefully sewed them up so neatly. I do not know, just a painful feeling ...
This is probably not very pleasant for people. But I do not express it to them. When I'm working, I'm very demanding. This is some kind of my flaw. And who likes to work, explain to me? I'm just in shock sometimes, that against the background of the others I look like a workaholic. But in life there must be a place not only a feat, but also rest.
Renata, do you have a reserved place where you feel calm and comfortable?
You know, lately I feel comfortable in all places, except Moscow. Here already everything is shot-re-shot a hundred times. All old buildings have been demolished and now this Turkish new building with blue windows is everywhere. I hate it! Although she was born in the hospital on Arbat, opposite the cinema "Art", and we lived in the street Gilyarovsky. These places are my family from childhood. I see how the city is changing. And I see that not everything is for the better. And yet I love Moscow. Renata, you have a daughter growing up.
Renata, what has changed in you with her appearance?
With the advent of Ulyana, I changed a lot, I became different. I have a higher meaning that was not there before. This is Love. There was no stronger feeling in my life than my love for a child. My daughter surprises me - she is interested in everything, and even tries to copy me in some sense. Already reported that, like her mother, will be an actress or singer. I'm sometimes told that my daughter has the same unusual name as mine. This is our family. My grandmother's name was Faina, my mother's name was Alice. The name is something personal. As a child, I really did not like my name, did not want to call it when someone asked. I thought, why do I have such a stupid name ?! Around all normal: Olya, Lena, Natasha. And now I love him.
Popular and unorthodox Renata Litvinova, your manner of behavior has become a byword. I think that this not only pleases, but also irritates?
I'm often accused of unnaturalness ... Boring. Being mannered is better than trivial. I resign myself to the fact that my personality can hurt, annoy. Part of this is already beside me. The second Renata. Or the third. But such women, unpleasant, breaking, strange, they also happen! Have not you ever met them? For them, this behavior is normal and natural. Let this shock someone or not, but I'm just that, not the other. Do not pretend, I do not specially depict anyone. It's me! Is it really so difficult to believe this? I myself, as a spectator, would be more interested in individuality. Maybe interesting, as long as it's just that. Without a doubt. And you are also interested in the fact that you are imprisoned for self-development, and this is a rarity.
I always say that people are very prone to degradation. Therefore, you need to train yourself all the time and keep in good shape. Because a person, of course, loses strength, gets tired, it seems to him that it's better to lie down on the sofa in the evening, stare at the TV set or put mountains of food and drink in front of him. It absorbs some kind of dark wave, he does not want anything. You need to keep yourself in suspense and not succumb. A good recipe, but many just succumb, and then suffer. That's not fatal. Suffering very much feeds the soul and they also have a healthy grain. I also like to suffer sometimes. Immediately you feel that you are alive and you have a heart. So life, in spite of everything, is a beautiful thing. We must tirelessly work on ourselves. Listen to intuition. Because angels always try to send us.
Renata, how do you assess their efforts in the eternal struggle between good and evil?
I think that good people are still more. Just in a person, it seems to me, there are not only white and black forces present, but also transparent ones, which, depending on the circumstances, serve one or the other. Many of these circumstances are very difficult, and often they are prompted to a certain choice ...
Yes, most people live a difficult life. And you can not demand any spiritual work from them. It's a lot of work. Personal affair of everyone. Imagine how the homeless survive. But strong people are making tests even harder and, strangely enough, cheerfully. The weak become evil, and this destroys them. Empathy, empathy are just as strong as love. We are all so defenseless, vulnerable, mortal. Everyone loves mother, even more defenseless in her love. All need to be pitied. I want to be on the side of the world. Although, of course, in the world there is a multiplication of evil, but ... I will fight. For me, what is beautiful, above all, is connected with the light and divine powers. I try to be a conductor of these forces.