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 t…

- Pawel Pawlikowski

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

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 …

- Pawel Pawlikowski

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…

- Pawel Pawlikowski

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

- Pawel Pawlikowski

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

- Pawel Pawlikowski

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…

- Pawel Pawlikowski

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

- 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