Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words-liberty, equality, and fraternity-do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
Interior liberty is universal.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
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.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
The films should be influenced by the individual commandments to the same degree that the commandments influence our daily lives.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
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.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.