“I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my film...” — Pawel Pawlikowski Quote

“I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my films as I go along. And TV is all about writing, so you just shoot, shoot, shoot what's written.”

“I grew up cinematically in the '70s. I was watching a lot of Godard, Bresson, Dreyer, and all sorts of old films and the Czech New Wave.”

“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 can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it starts to be fun. That's the way I find writing.”

“In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.”

“I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.”