Krzysztof Kieslowski - biography

“The struggle will always be the same - you’re still trying to make your own film with someone else’s money.”

“Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity?  Is it not some manner of speaking?”

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

“In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don’t seem to suit the person at all.”

“To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements.  It creates dilemmas.  It brings in suffering.  We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.  You’ll rarely find a happy ending in my work.”

“The television industry doesn’t like to see the compexity of the world.  It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that’s black; this is good, that’s bad.”

“For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm.  Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.”

“I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.”

“In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.”

“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”

“Of course I’d like to get beyond the concrete.  But it’s really difficult.  Very difficult.”

“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.”

“There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.”

“We’re always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.”

Krzysztof Kieslowski directed the following films:
Urzad (1966)
Tramwaj (1966)
Koncert zyczen (1967)
Z miasta Lodzi (1968)
Robotnicy 1971 – Nic o nas bez nas (1971)
Przed rajdem (1971)
Bylem zolnierzem (1971)
Fabryka (1971)
Miedzy Wroclawiem a Zielona Gora (1972)
Podstawy BHP w kopalni miedzi (1972)
Refren (1972)
Murarz (1973)
Przeswietlenie (1974)
Zyciorys (1975)
Klaps (1976)
Blizna (1976)
Nie wiem (1977)
Szpital (1977)
Z punktu widzenia nocnego portiera (1979)
Siedem kobiet w róznym wieku (1979)
Amator (1979)
Dworzec (1980)
Gadajace glowy (1980)
Bez konca (1985)
Przypadek (1987)
Siedem dni w tygodniu (1988)
Krótki film o zabijaniu (1988)
Krótki film o milosci (1988)
City Life (1990)
La double vie de Véronique (1991)
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
Trzy kolory: Bialy (1994)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)


Krzysztof Kieslowski contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
La Double vie de Véronique (1991)
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
Trois couleurs Rouge (1994)
Trois couleurs: Blanc (1994)
Heaven (2002)
L’Enfer (2005)