A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.

I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English.

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

We broke the world to make it whole.