Krzysztof Kieslowski

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

“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

“But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

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

“Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

I am trained as a film-maker. There is nothing else I can do.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

“[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

And in that time. When men decide and feel safe. To call the war insane, Take one moment to embrace. Those gentle…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski