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Krzysztof Kieslowski
Polish
Director
About the author
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
#Feeling
#Worth
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
#Love
#Eyes
#Suffering
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,
Polish
Director
#Love
#Work
#Ending
#Truth
#Suffering
#Opposition
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
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,
Polish
Director
#World
#Television
Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
#Life
#Names
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
#People
#Being
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
#Walking
#Lovers
#Optimism
#Sunset
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Polish
Director
#Want
#People
#Liberty
#Equality
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,
Polish
Director
#People
#Memory