Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I don't have proper places to run.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Run
  • Places
  • Proper

• Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Day

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Style

• I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Know

• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Political
  • Opinion

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Problem
  • Always
  • Him

• Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Eye
  • Door

• Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Single
  • Movies

• Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Positive

• When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Say
  • Rather
  • Though

• I loved campaigning for Obama.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Loved
  • Obama
  • Campaigning

• Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nature

• If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • God

• I am not a person who plans things in advance.

  

  Ana de Armas

• You want me to begin a novel with The two women were alone in the London flat?

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Women
  • Alone

• When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • End

• Son-they say there isn’t any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Country
  • America
  • Fall

• You could turn to others for help, but you couldn’t claim their help by right.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Help

• I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski