Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes
I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.
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Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.
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I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.
