Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I think about my journey sometimes.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

I had nothing to talk about until I, like, lived.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.