As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

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.

Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

Tell them what you do, and if they want to know more, they’ll ask.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

The audience requires not information but drama.

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

Everything starts with the customer.