Quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski - Page 1

Interior liberty is universal.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Interiors
Liberty
Universal
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(When asked what a director does) I help.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Directors
Doe
Helping
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There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Individual
Mystery
Secret
Zone
Each
Each Individual
Mysteries
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I am trained as a film-maker. There is nothing else I can do.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Trained
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I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Different Nationalities
No Problem
People
Problem
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It's not interesting to achieve; the ways of achievement are interesting.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Achieve
Interesting
Ways
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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Believe
Lost
Rationality
Too Much
Believing
Contemporaries
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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Equality
Fraternity
Liberty
People
Want
Manner
Speaking
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Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Concrete
Courses
Difficult
Beyond
Course
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Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Doubt
Mistake
School
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We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Directors
Influence
Smart
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I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Believe
Containing
Drama
Scrutiny
Secret
Worthy
Life Believe I Believe
Dramas
Secrets
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I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Poland
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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Names
Real
Real Life
Suits
Surprise
Life Real Person
Suit
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That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Directors
Sin
Want
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Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Feelings
Investigating
Knowing
Not Knowing
Pain
Painful
Unknown
Feeling
Maybe
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I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Chance
Life Is
Meetings
People
Realising
Should
Life Day People
Life Chance People
Full
Without
Day
Every Day
Pass
Whom
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For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Appeals
Hands
Lovers
Sunrise
Sunset
Two
Arm
Whatever
Maybe
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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 / Film Director
Black
Black Hole
Good Character
Imagine
Pessimist
Worst
Characteristic
Hole
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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 / Film Director
Elements
Great Experiences
Purifying
Thinking
Experience Music Great
Element
Great Experience
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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 / Film Director
Men
Directors
World
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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 / Film Director
Dream
Intuition
Superstitions
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Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Cursed
Eastern
Former
Longing
Missing
Communists
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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 / Film Director
Running
Doors
Memories
Salt
Sugar
Borrow
Run
Door
Elevator
Memory
Spectator
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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 / Film Director
Fate
Stories
Want
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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 / Film Director
Ideas
Simple
White
Good World Black
Reporting
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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 / Film Director
Cutting
House
Village
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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 / Film Director
Essentials
Liberty
People
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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 / Film Director
Equal
Thinking
Want
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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 / Film Director
Documentaries
Everyday
People
Real
Trusted
Truth People Sometimes
Everyday Lives
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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 / Film Director
Character
Goal
Manage
Trying
Describe
Dwells
Escape
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It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Unreal
Aside
Film World
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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 / Film Director
Degrees
Film
Influence
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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 / Film Director
Elements
Love Is
Opposition
Suffering
Love Truth Work
Brings
Creates
Dilemmas
Ending
Love Work Truth
Happy Ending
Rarely
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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 / Film Director
Television
Today
World
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Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. 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 / Film Director
Different
Obsession
People
Thinking
Trying
World
Thing
Time Thinking World
Make
Try
Same
Connect
Different Parts
Different People
Films
Mine
Parts
Places
Reasons
Same Thing
Which
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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 / Film Director
Accepted
Ambition
Film School
Satisfied
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I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.
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Everyday
Goes On
People
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For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is some kind of atmosphere that makes people now turn to other values. They want to contemplate the basic questions of life, and that is probably the real reason for wanting to tell these stories.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
People
Real
Years
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Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.
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Artist
Real
Skills
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You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...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... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.
Krzysztof Kieslowski / Film Director
Dream
Movie
People
Somewhere Else
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