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

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.

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

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.

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.

The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt.

I've noticed you only speak ghetto half of the time." - Stephanie"I'm multi-lingual, " Rancher said.I followed him to the door, feeling jealous, wishing I knew a second language.

The world is desperately waiting on your positive input. Try not to permit fears and doubts to hold you back.

The end of the world came and my job did not change.

I never give up hope.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

Some call me a gangster of love