Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieślowski; 27 June 1941 – 13 March 1996) was an influential Polish art-house film director and screenwriter known internationally for The Decalogue, The Double Life of Véronique, 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...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth27 June 1941
CountryPoland
(When asked what a director does) I help.
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.