Krzysztof Kieślowski

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world... no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.”

“The older I get, the more I feel that the six most important words in life are: 'I am sorry, it's my fault'.”

“For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.”

“You make a film and you don't know who is going to see it. It's a very strange thing.”

“I think that in life, as in art, the beautiful moves me most.”

“There are as many films as there are people. Every person is a film.”

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

“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 about that.”

“I'm not a politician. I'm not a prophet. I'm a film-maker.”

“In my opinion, if you want to be a director, you shouldn't be interested in cinema. You should be interested in life.”

“I prefer to be a pessimist. It makes it easier to get through the day.”

“Maybe the world is turning into a place where we are all feeling less and less, and that's the greatest danger. That we are all becoming stones.”

“The world is so constructed that if you wish to survive you must close your eyes.”

“I don't know what 'art' is. I'm a craftsman. I'm a craftsman who is trying to say something.”

“There is no final answer. The only final answer is death.”