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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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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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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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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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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No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.
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Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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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.
