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Pawel Pawlikowski

Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavɛw alɛˈksandɛr pavliˈkɔfskʲi]; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish-British filmmaker, who has lived and worked most of his life in the UK. He garnered much acclaim for a string of award-winning documentaries in the 1990s and for his feature films Last Resort and My Summer of Love, both of which won a BAFTA and many other European awards. His latest film, Ida, won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant.

Film, School, Spirit, Thinking, Together

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

Script, Scripts, Work

I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.

Depressed, Order, Projects, Three, Usually, Writing

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

Stories, Layers, Starting, Good

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

Mix, Perfectionist, Persons, Pretty, Unfortunate

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.

Journey, Directors, Littles, Reinventing, Wheel

From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos.

Chaos, Documentaries, Medium, Order

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal. . . and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Epicentre, Excitement, Needs, Silence, Withdrawal

I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly.

Asleep, Cinema, Film, Imagination

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

Film, Films, Given, Mind

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

Careers, Hollywood, Kind, Moving, Order

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

Casting, Imagine, Photographs, Process, Writing