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I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.

I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.

I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?