Cinema Quote by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

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 - nothing…

— 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…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

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 she'd been…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

“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

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

“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

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 fate -…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski