The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same. Pawel Pawlikowski documentaryfictionmake Change image and share on social
I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story. Pawel Pawlikowski characterdocumentaryempirical share on social
I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things. Pawel Pawlikowski brilliantchaoticengland share on social
I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble. Pawel Pawlikowski cinemacommitteefocus Change image and share on social
I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper. Pawel Pawlikowski backbehavecrave share on social
I'm not emotionally excited by the power of cinema's tricks anymore. Pawel Pawlikowski anymorecinemaemotionally Change image and share on social
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. Pawel Pawlikowski characterexperiencefiction share on social
I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women. Pawel Pawlikowski bitecharacterfeminist share on social
Strangely, you know, my parents, who left Poland separately and, you know, divorced, ended up marrying other people. But then they met again abroad, and they got together again. Pawel Pawlikowski abroaddivorceend Change image and share on social
The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life. Pawel Pawlikowski importantlifeproblem Change image and share on social