This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.