I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the transformation of real places into emotional landscapes within film, using repetition of locations to enhance the storytelling.
Pawel Pawlikowski discusses his artistic approach to filmmaking, where he aims to evoke specific mental states through the use of recurring locations. He believes that by stylizing these landscapes within the context of subjective storytelling, the films gain a mythic quality, allowing viewers to connect more deeply with the characters' experiences.
In practice
A filmmaker could use this quote when discussing their artistic choices at a film festival.
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.
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
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