The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.