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

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.

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.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self.

I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.