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.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

Interior liberty is universal.

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

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.

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.