Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

I think all my films have a different journey. Therefore, I take it as it comes.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.