My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

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• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all tra

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing pe

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  I'm not emotionally excited by the power of cinema's tricks anymore.

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films a

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as s

• Pawel Pawlikowski:

  The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to r