For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
You need to make certain decisions to expand your market.
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.
I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.
Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.
We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
