(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

My behavior is humiliating.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

Real wealth comes to the person who learns that we are paid best for the things we do for nothing.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.