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Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Krzysztof Kieslowski was a distinguished Polish film director whose works are characterized by profound themes of morality, ethics, and the human condition. His unique visual style and narrative techniques have had a lasting impact on the world of cinema. more

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“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.”

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Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
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“Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.”

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Author:Carl Theodor Dreyer
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“I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.”

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Book:Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974
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