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Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: polish
Birth: September 15, 1957

Topics

Life Art Complicated Right Simplify

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Time Me Think Him Tell Film

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

Writing Joke Superhero Willing He

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

Looking Story Reality Audience Bring

Women aren't sitting back after they win an election. They're leaning in!

Women Win Back Election Sitting

I've won the world title - what I've dreamt of since the age of eight.

Age World Eight Title Won Since

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Easy Look Situation Kind Living Big

Improving veterans' employment is an all-hands-on-deck enterprise. We work with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, with private sector partners and others.

Work Veterans Others Improving

President Obama is an inspiration of mine, and interning with his administration in the White House opened my eyes to the possibilities of making change at the local level.

Change Eyes Possibilities House Mine

Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.

Sad Food Road Bad Without Clown

It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away.

Work Courage Crazy Down Play Go

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

Denis Villeneuve

Love History Time Myself Curious

I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment... People in a crucible of an extraordinary circumstance. And then, how that experience changes their life.

Life Moment Decision Experience

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