“I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't really know why they were living.” IndifferenceModern Times Book:Kieslowski on Kieslowski Source: Kieslowski on 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 times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There's something very beautiful in that. It was worth making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It's worth it.” SoulWisdomFilmPurposeAudienceFilmmakingDirecting Book:Kieslowski on Kieslowski Source: Kieslowski on 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 at the bus stop, when I observe people struggling vainly to get close to others, when I see someone eating up the left-overs in a cheap restaurant, when I see the first blotches on a woman's hand and know that she too is bitterly aware of them, when I see the kind of appalling and irreparable injustice that so visibly scars the human face. I want this pain to come across to my audience, to see this physical agony, which I think I am beginning to fathom, to seep into my work.” TruthSufferingAudienceAwarenessFilmmakingAgonyImpotenceDirecting Author:Krzysztof Kieślowski
“Do you think Western Civilization has come to an end? "We are clearly going through a cultural crisis at the moment. It's a phase where we are trying to distinguish values of life. People are looking for a solution and perhaps they will find it. But the radicality of the search will change their view of life." So there is a cultural crises? "There is a general crisis, but it's not the end of the world. But the crisis it total? "And so what? The crisis means that now the world is at the bottom of a sinus curve. In the nature of things, it will now rise and fall again later.” CrisisRebirthEnd Of The WorldValues Of LifeCultural Crisis Book:Kieslowski on Kieslowski Source: Kieslowski on Kieslowski
“W Polsce jest w ogóle inny stosunek do pracy. Ludzie czasem są rozpszczeni przez czterdzieści lat systemu, który mieliśmy. A poza tym przez to nasze narodowe poczucie, że jesteśmy stworzeni do czegoś wyższego niż sprzątanie klozetu, zajmowanie się czystością ulic, układanie przyzwoicie asfaltu czy instalowanie rur wodociągowych tak, żeby nie ciekły. To żenująco przyziemne. Do tego w ogóle nie jesteśmy stworzeni. My, którzy jesteśmy pępkiem świata. W moim przekonaniu w dużym stopniu nasz stosunek do pracy wynika z absurdalnego poczuci wyższości. Praca to jest coś właściwie nieistotnego.” PolacyPraca Book:Autobiografia Source: Autobiografia