Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes

Krzysztof Kieslowski (12)

Birth:	27th June, 1941
Death:	13th June, 1996
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Director, Screenwriter

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• We’re always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

• 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

• There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  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

• 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

• Of course I’d like to get beyond the concrete. But it’s really difficult. Very difficult.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

• Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

• I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

• For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise – whatever appeals to you.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

  Krzysztof Kieslowski