It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

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.

Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

How I do love to hear the wolves howl!

Usefulness depends on tractability.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.