Words matter. These are the best Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don’t seem to suit the person at all.
It’s not interesting to achieve; the ways of achievement are interesting.
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise – whatever appeals to you.
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
I like chance meetings – life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
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.
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.
We’re always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
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.
Of course I’d like to get beyond the concrete. But it’s really difficult. Very difficult.
I have one good characteristic: I’m a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst – always. To me, the future is a black hole.
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.
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
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.
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.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
