“The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one ...” — Pawel Pawlikowski Quote

“The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries.”

“I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.”

“My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.”

“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”

“Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.”

“Live TV is the future. It's the only way you can beat the DVRing of America. Everything is DVRed, and no one watches stuff when it's on. Awards shows and sports are watched when they're broadcast.”