Top 38 Kieslowski Quotes
#1. I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't really know why they were living.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#2. Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#3. To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#4. I'm not someone who remembers dreams for long. I forget them as soon as I wake up- if I've had any, that is.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#5. That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#6. 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 where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#7. 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
#8. Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#10. You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#11. Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#12. I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#13. We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#14. We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#15. 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
#16. The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#18. 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
#19. 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 we wanted to depict the world as it was.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#20. I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#21. Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#22. 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 Dostoevsky or Camus.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#23. [on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#24. I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#25. In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#27. Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#28. It's an obsession of mine, that different people, in different places, are thinking the same thing, but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#29. I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#31. In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#32. If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#33. But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#34. For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#35. 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 have died for those ideals.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#36. 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 anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#37. The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#38. Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
