73 Quotes by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

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.

[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.

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.

I'm not really sure who I am but I love reading books.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

Ale tak naprawdę robię filmy, bo nie umiem nic innego. To był zły wybór, którego kiedyś dokonałem. Wtedy prawdopodobnie nie mógł być inny. Dzisiaj wiem, że był zły. To jest zawód, który jest bardzo trudny. Jest bardzo stresujący, bardzo męczący a daje nieproporcjonalnie mało satysfakcji w stosunku do tego wysiłku, który mu się poświęca.

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