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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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go there, kids want to go there, hipsters want to go there. It's like everyone will want to see it.
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But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.
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It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.
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I never made up any investor. I never made up Paul Abrams.
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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.
