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.

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.

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.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time

True giving happens when we give from our heart.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

The majority of my blood is Asian.