Szumowska Malgorzata Quotes & Sayings

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. — Stephen Ambrose

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear? — Moms Mabley

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. — Marquis De Sade

Listen to the voice of the earth... — Pope Benedict XVI

In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids instead of making movies about what I want and, even worse, addressing Polish taboos like church, homosexuals and history. — Malgorzata Szumowska

I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as fast as possible. From one film to the other, I'm getting better. I'm learning - that's my style. — Malgorzata Szumowska

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English. — Malgorzata Szumowska

One of my favorite quotes is:
... If I strike you it ain't going to be in your fancy. — Shannon Stacey

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society. — Malgorzata Szumowska

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. — Malgorzata Szumowska

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls

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

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. — Malgorzata Szumowska

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. — Malgorzata Szumowska

I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach an audience. However, the plot about the character of Olga and the idea that a body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind. — Malgorzata Szumowska

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. — Malgorzata Szumowska

I couldn't help suspecting I had manufactured the whole thing, my need for him, simply to avoid what I considered to be the alternatives. This is one of my very annoying traits. I can't sit back and let something grow of its own momentum and eventually reveal its truth or horror. I must probe it from the outset. — Don DeLillo

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. — Learned Hand

Diversity is really a richness for mankind. — Fabiola Gianotti

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

I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment. — Malgorzata Szumowska

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand. — Malgorzata Szumowska