“I’d like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It’s conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I’d love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.” PolishInterviewKrytykapolitycznaMichalhernesStandup Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“To me, comedians are the last great storytellers because they depict their stories and create their effect with so few words. In the span of a couple minutes, stand-up comics can communicate more emotion than most novels do in hours worth of reading.” HumorPolishInterviewKrytykapolitycznaMichalhernes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Ah, Houellebecq. I’ve only read him in English translations so I’m sure I’m not getting the full greatness of his work, but golly, he writes better sex scenes than anyone else alive.” PolishInterviewKrytykapolitycznaMichalhernesHouellebecq Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Romance… affection… these are what give our lives value. They justify all the suffering of life. My goal is to always reinvent heroic romances and present larger-than-life characters that will inspire readers to fall in love and expand their own lives.” RomancePolishInterviewKrytykapolitycznaMichalhernes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“There’s a famous quote regarding Polanski. Perhaps Jack Nicholson said it, perhaps someone else, but it goes, “Polanski is the five-foot Pole I wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.” So, yes, the world seems to despise him. I, however, love his work. It’s so much funnier and well-constructed than the pompous stuff of Kubrick. Polanski balances between camp and horror in much the same way Billy Wilder did.” PolishInterviewWilderKrytykapolitycznaMichalhernesPolanski Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“In my version neither story would get off the ground because all the spouses involved in both stories would honor their partners and remain faithful. Both ‘Patient’ and “Piano’ glorify and romanticize adultery; and that only works in fiction when it’s the female who’s cuckolding the male. If a story shows a man cheating on his wife… well, that’s never a cultural masterpiece, is it?” PianoPolishInterviewKrytykapolitycznaMichalhernesEnglishpatient Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“In the future? People will realize the opposite of what Andy Warhol – yes, a Pole! – predicted. Instead of everyone getting fifteen minutes of fame, everyone will get fifteen minutes of privacy. Satellites, cameras, the internet, these are tracking us every second. The next generation of young people will crave solitude. The non-stop gaze of mass media ogling us, that’s the new monster.” PolishMonsterInterviewWarholKrytykapolitycznaMichalhernes Author:Chuck Palahniuk