Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes
It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.
Quotes to Explore
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
-
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
-
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
-
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
-
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
-
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
-
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
-
Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
-
Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
-
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
-
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
-
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
-
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
-
I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
-
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
-
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
-
I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
-
I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
-
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
-
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
-
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.
-
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.
-
It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.
