It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to.

I am trained as a film-maker. There is nothing else I can do.

I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.

Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.

It's not interesting to achieve; the ways of achievement are interesting.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don’t seem to suit the person at all.

I really don’t know anything about music, and it’s no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator’s memory.

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I’ll never achieve it; in the same way that I’ll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

The television industry doesn’t like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that’s black; this is good, that’s bad.