“I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focu...” — Pawel Pawlikowski Quote

“I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.”

“I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.”

“For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.”

“Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.”

“I was doing 'Balika Vadhu,' and had watched a few Punjabi films. I realised that it's the kind of cinema I want to do, so I stepped back from TV fiction.”

“I don't want to act in a preachy movie just because that is more sensible. I don't watch that kind of cinema.”