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.

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.

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.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.