73 Quotes by Krzysztof Kieślowski

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

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.

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.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

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.

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.

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

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.