I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.