“ Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? Krzysztof Kieslowski
“ I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know. 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… Krzysztof Kieslowski
“ 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
“ 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
“ Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three tim… Krzysztof Kieslowski
“ We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence. Krzysztof Kieslowski
“ Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made. Krzysztof Kieslowski
“ [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
“ Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my own: the physically painful impotence and sorrow that assail me when I see a man weeping a… Krzysztof Kieslowski
