I am trained as a film-maker. There is nothing else I can do. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
“But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
“[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
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… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses,… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share
“But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
“Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share
You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate -… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
“[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other.… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share
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… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
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