Krzysztof Kieślowski quotes

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

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Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

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Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

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Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

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I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

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There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

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Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

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I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

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None of the films is about me. Not a single one. None. I have my life and I'll simply never tell anyone what part of me is in my films.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

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I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

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