Pawlikowski Pawel Quotes & Sayings

Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form.
[Letter to Max E. Feckler, Oct. 26, 1914] — Jack London

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix. — Pawel Pawlikowski

I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly. — Pawel Pawlikowski

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence. — Taylor Dayne

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal ... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises. — Pawel Pawlikowski

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything. — John Trudell

It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you. — George Clooney

Like an ocean, a clarity where longing gets started. — Ana Enriqueta Teran

evidence for life after death? Wouldn't they — Bill Guggenheim

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less. — Pawel Pawlikowski

When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant. — Pawel Pawlikowski

From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos. — Pawel Pawlikowski

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colour is a matter of personal opinion. — Tessa De Loo

Life is really weird, I thought. It's not just bad people who spread misery - even pretty things can be hurtful. So hard to understand — Nujood Ali

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director. — Pawel Pawlikowski

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction. — Phyllis Diller

My swag is off the charts. — Roman Reigns

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking. — Pawel Pawlikowski

I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God. — Jim Jefferies

When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the performances. We would go back and do A.D.R. - Automated Dialogue Replacement - in which you would hear yourself and then repeat your line. Even when we were doing that, there was a slight disconnect because you were trying to recreate a performance. — Nolan North

I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking. — Dalai Lama

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood. — Pawel Pawlikowski

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers. — Pawel Pawlikowski

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time. — Pawel Pawlikowski

Stop the violence! Can't we all just get along? — Chris Rock

I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it. — Pawel Pawlikowski