TALKING HEADS
When were you born?
Who are you?
What is most important to you, what would you like from life?
I'm two years old.
Who are you really?
- What would you like from life? - Nothing.
- Who are you? - I'm a little boy.
- What would you like from life? - I'd like to be a car.
- Who are you? - I don't know.
- What would you like from life? - I'd like to paint horses...
and to have a horse.
I'm an ugly brunette.
I'd like not to have to go to school and to have a lovely child.
I'm not really sure who I am but I love reading books.
I'd like to go to America most of all.
I think I'm a bit different from my friends.
I'd like the Pope to come to Poland.
I'm not fully prepared to make
major decisions as yet.
I'd like people to treat one another with a greater degree of respect
in their daily existence. I'd like them to simply take
more notice of one another. I'd like there to be more love
in our society.
I'm a bit selfish and egotistical.
There are lots of people I don't respect.
Nonetheless, I'm quite a friendly person.
It seems like a contradiction, I know, but it's true.
What would I like? I'd like to change my character.
I'd like to have fewer vices. I'd be a happier person then.
When I set my mind on achieving something, I usually do.
What would I like?
I'd like all people to do things for others
rather than just for themselves.
I'd like them to understand that their
quest for material possessions will not make them happy.
I see myself as a person from an orphanage.
I'd like all people to have a happy childhood.
I'd like everyone to have a beautiful childhood.
I'm an easygoing person.
I go through life with a smile and I'd like things to stay that way.
It helps me in life.
I find it difficult to make my desires
correspond to my opportunities.
I'd like to be more certain
what criteria to follow when assessing my own conduct.
I'd like to see right from wrong.
I guess I'm a carefree optimist and a dreamer.
I'd like to get out of the city and live closer to nature and animals.
If truth be told, I'm still a nobody.
And will be for a while.
But in the future,
I'd like to find out
what it means to be a human being.
I'm at that stage of my life where I still take more than I give.
I'm gathering experience and values.
What I'd like is to have freedom in the wider sense of the word,
the kind of freedom that doesn't favour the strongest.
I'm a student so I still have a bit of time before
I have to commit myself and make my final choice which,
I guess, I'll have to pursue for the rest of my life.
I don't like the aggression which underlies human relations.
People hate and fear one another.
I'd like them to realise that the real reasons lie without,
and start standing up to them.
I'm a single mother and at the clinic I feel I'm close to people.
One day I'd like to save someone's life and know that I did that myself.
Single-handedly.
I'm a young engineer fresh from university still full of high moral
values and work ethics.
I'd like to stay this way in the years to come.
I'm a driver and I'd like Polish people to work better.
I'm an alpinist.
You can't get to know a person here. Only in the high mountains.
To me it's vital that we live courageously.
I'm no different to anyone else, to be honest.
I'd like people not to let their fear
of other people get in the way of their choices.
I'd simply like people not to
be afraid of each other.
I've worked in different white-collar jobs.
Now I'm an electrician, which gives me more job satisfaction.
How should we think about the future? I don't think young people
should bother themselves thinking about that.
They should seize the day.
That's always been my philosophy, anyway.
I see myself as a realist.
What would I like?
I'd like to secure a modest but sufficient living for my family.
I'm a history teacher.
What's most important for me is that everyone be masters of their
own fate and enjoy freedom of choice.
I'm a catholic.
I'd like to have my own home,
my own place to live.
I deem myself a humanist.
What I'd like to see,
though I doubt I will, is that the concepts
of democracy and tolerance are instilled
not verbally but practically.
Currently, I'm a full-time board member
of a factory youth organization.
One day I'd like to be an economic activist, which would
correspond to the university course I'm currently attending.
I seem to have practically everything an ordinary person should desire.
Perhaps that's good but I feel something's missing.
I'm at that life stage where I'd like to change something,
achieve something. I'm not sure what, but
I'd like things to be different.
I work but, more importantly, I've got two children.
What bothers me most are nepotism and opportunism.
I'd like there to be more kindness and reason.
I'm a biologist, a father and a state worker.
I think that, most importantly,
one should fulfil one's roles with a clear conscience.
It may seem banal, but in fact, it's very difficult.
I've got two children and I've written two novels.
What am I afraid of?
Recently I read on a foreign post stamp:
The ability to write is the root of democracy.
I'm afraid that lack of true social debate,
usually they're fabricated,
lack of thought exchange, something vital to me as a writer,
as well as the declining number of new books which after all
are the carriers of thought, may lead to the demise of democracy.
I'm a labourer to the core.
I wish people was more honest
and there was better justice.
Ever since I gave up being an academic and became a taxi driver,
I have felt much freer.
But I've also understood that one's personal freedom
is not enough.
In order to feel truly free
one must live in democracy and have a sense of safety.
Personal freedom isn't enough after all.
I'm a chemical engineer.
But currently, I drink.
What would I like?
Nothing. Everything's in perfect order.
Who am I? It's an extremely difficult question.
Because we all have to live up to so many different expectations
that we can't always be one thing.
However I'm very clear about what I'd like.
I'd like to live in a world made up of real stuff,
not fiction and appearances.
I'm a Varsovian and a sociologist.
I have a strong sense of responsibility
and little sense of humour.
I suppose that these two features don't help much in life.
First of all, on a personal level, I'd like to wish
good health to my family and friends.
On a wider scale,
I'd like to wish people in Poland and around the world
less suffering and humiliation.
I'm on the verge of two mysteries:
One, the natural mystery of human life.
The other is religion, questions of faith and attitude to God.
What gives me great joy and happiness is the fact that
I can help others be better and happier.
What would I like?
If I may refer to the well known saying "proletarians unite",
I'd like all good people to unite, and not against something
but to unite in good.
I've always tried and usually managed
to avoid lies and to keep one face.
What would I like?
I'd like people
to learn to show gratitude.
I've always been a giver. I've worked as much as my
talent and health allowed.
There's a competition for a monument to Juliusz Slowacki,
and I'd like to produce a good proposal for it.
I live for my memories,
mainly the memories of the pre-war,
resistance and early post-war past, when new vibrant life
was sprouting everywhere.
Not all our dreams have come true.
I'd like them to come true for my sons and grandsons.
I'm a humanist and an academic.
I believe that the most important thing in life
is the human right to one's
own opinion and dignity.
What I want most is peace
for the world and for myself.
I've been a widow for the last two weeks.
I'm the widow of the late Stanislaw.
That's all.
What do I want? I want nothing.
I'm one hundred years old.
What would you like?
How much would I like? I'd like to live longer...
Live longer.