Explore Quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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.

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.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

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

For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is some kind of atmosphere that makes people now turn to other values. They want to contemplate the basic questions of life, and that is probably the real reason for wanting to tell these stories.

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

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.