Krzysztof Kieślowski Quotes

Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter.

He is known internationally for Dekalog , The Double Life of Veronique , and the Three Colors trilogy . Kieślowski received numerous awards during his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize , FIPRESCI Prize , and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury ; the Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize , Golden Lion , and OCIC Award ; and the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear . In 1995, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writing.In 2002, Kieślowski was listed at number two on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound list of the top ten film directors of "modern times". Wikipedia  

✵ 27. June 1941 – 13. March 1996
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Famous Krzysztof Kieślowski Quotes

“None of the films is about me. Not a single one. None. I have my life and I'll simply never tell anyone what part of me is in my films.”

As quoted in "Kieślowski's Many Colours" by Patrick Abrahamsson, in Oxford University Student newspaper (2 June 1995)
Context: I don't make biographical films … None of the films is about me. Not a single one. None. I have my life and I'll simply never tell anyone what part of me is in my films. I won't ever tell anyone about that, because I don't consider that to be anyone else's business but mine. Nobody will guess where and how and in what way I fill them with my own pains. And that's an intimate aspect of my work that I keep to myself. … I won't even tell my wife — ever.

“If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people.”

As quoted in "Kieślowski's Many Colours" by Patrick Abrahamsson, in Oxford University Student newspaper (2 June 1995) — republished at Musicolog.com http://www.musicolog.com/kieslowski_manycolours.asp#.Vt_PAsdSj8s
Context: If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word "love" has the same meaning for everybody. Or "fear", or "suffering". We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.

“If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people.”

As quoted in "Kieślowski's Many Colours" by Patrick Abrahamsson, in Oxford University Student newspaper (2 June 1995) — republished at Musicolog.com http://www.musicolog.com/kieslowski_manycolours.asp#.Vt_PAsdSj8s
Context: If there is anything worthwhile doing for the sake of culture, then it is touching on subject matters and situations which link people, and not those that divide people. There are too many things in the world which divide people, such as religion, politics, history, and nationalism. If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all. And there are so many things which unite people. It doesn't matter who you are or who I am, if your tooth aches or mine, it's still the same pain. Feelings are what link people together, because the word "love" has the same meaning for everybody. Or "fear", or "suffering". We all fear the same way and the same things. And we all love in the same way. That's why I tell about these things, because in all other things I immediately find division.

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