In 2006, I started making a film called ‘Restraint of Beasts.’ While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
I connect with all of the characters in my films. That’s what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can’t just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They’re not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In America, I don’t think you have the creative freedom that I’m used to. Traditionally, it’s a producer’s cinema here. Pawel Pawlikowski Read Quote
