I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.
Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
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.
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.
It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to.
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
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.
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
