I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.