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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? — Krzysztof Kieslowski 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 she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't… — 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 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 nature as… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I am trained as a film-maker. There is nothing else I can do. — 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 fate -… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
