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