Quotes by Krzysztof Kielowski

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

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

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“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...”
— Krzysztof Kielowski
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“Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.”
— Krzysztof Kielowski, Kieslowski on Kieslowski
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“[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.”
— Krzysztof Kielowski
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“We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.”
— Krzysztof Kielowski
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“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] Vronique. She'd gone once, twice, three t...”
— Krzysztof Kielowski, Kieslowski on Kieslowski
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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.”
— Krzysztof Kielowski, Kieslowski on Kieslowski
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“But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.”
— Krzysztof Kielowski, Kieslowski on Kieslowski
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