Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect of filmmaking and that is what I enjoy the most.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

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

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

You become a great writer by writing.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I'm anxious to make another film.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.