Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes

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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.

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Movie, Dream, Somewhere Else

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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.

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Sunset, Hands, Two

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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.

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Thinking, People, Trying

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

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Drama, Believe, Secret

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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.

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Black, Imagine, Good Character

"Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So..." Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

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Secret, Mystery, Individual

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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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Real, Artist, Skills

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Interior liberty is universal.

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Liberty, Universal, Interiors

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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.

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People, Chance, Life Is

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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Smart, Directors, Influence

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Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

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Pain, Knowing, Feelings

"The Essentials: Krzysztof Kieslowski" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. March 13, 2013.

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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

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Equality, People, Liberty

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

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Believe, Too Much, Lost

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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.

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Men, Directors, World

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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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People, Everyday, Goes On

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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.

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Fate, Stories, Want

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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.

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Dream, Intuition, Superstitions

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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.

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Directors, Want, Sin

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

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Mistake, School, Doubt

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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.

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Thinking, Want, Equal

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

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Real, Names, Suits

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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.

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Running, Memories, Doors

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(When asked what a director does) I help.

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Directors, Doe, Helping

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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.

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Simple, Ideas, White

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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.

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Thinking, Elements, Great Experiences

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Born: June 27, 1941
Died: March 13, 1996
Occupation: Film director
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