Krzysztof Kieślowski Quotes

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.

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.

[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.

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.