Words are water

It is curious that performances of what is known as 'Theatre of The Absurd' - Beckett, Ionesco- should as a rule produce an impression almost of naturalism: or at any rate of total truth. That is the problem of how truth in art resolves around itself; for such truth is intimately connected with the specifics of a given genre.
A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism and vice-versa.
In cinema as in life- the text, the words, are refracted in everything apart from the words themselves. The words mean nothing- words are water.'

Andrei Tarkovsky