My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life. Pawel Pawlikowski More Quotes by Pawel Pawlikowski More Quotes From Pawel Pawlikowski We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises. Pawel Pawlikowski withdrawalsilenceneeds I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly. Pawel Pawlikowski cinemafilmimagination It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers. Pawel Pawlikowski layersstartingstories I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix. Pawel Pawlikowski perfectionistunfortunatepersons I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time. Pawel Pawlikowski givenfilmmind I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood. Pawel Pawlikowski careersordermoving From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos. Pawel Pawlikowski documentarieschaosorder When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant. Pawel Pawlikowski togetherschoolthinking The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking. Pawel Pawlikowski castingimaginewriting I never work from the script. I get the script more or less. Pawel Pawlikowski scripts I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it. Pawel Pawlikowski threewritingorder For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director. Pawel Pawlikowski journeylittlesdirectors There are a lot of things in common between this couple and my parents, they were kind of a disastrous couple who fell in love, separated, fell in love again, married other people, got together again, changed countries, fell apart, came together again and so on. Pawel Pawlikowski entertainment The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries. Pawel Pawlikowski liveluxurywinningtime My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people. Pawel Pawlikowski not-talkingmotherfatherpeople I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble. Pawel Pawlikowski someonecinemafocushappy Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me. Pawel Pawlikowski citymehomepeople I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know. Pawel Pawlikowski welljustknowyou Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message. Pawel Pawlikowski messageyoujournalismart I love films that are many things at the same time while being simple. Pawel Pawlikowski thingssimpletimelove
