Kieslowski not only leaves us to interpret the films, he leaves us to complete them. As Stanley Kubrick says in his foreword to the screenplay of The Decalogue: ‘You never see the ideas coming and don’t realise until much later how profoundly they have reached your heart.’
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
I didn’t like the whole film world, an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I’m used to. Basic values. It’s not an honourable profession.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
There are two cars waiting by the cafe. His assistant gets into one, a spanking-new off-roader.
Pierre Cardin shuffles into the other, a battered Renault 5.
Stroking an imaginary
friend, a yellow
cat called Banana
I feel a little embarrassed that the thing that stopped me from going to see Bernie was not a fifty-billion-dollar fraud but an affair that he didn’t tell me about. After the terrible crime he committed, I wonder why I would care about an affair. But I do.
A man is as young as his spinal column.
The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It’s kind of a no-brainer.
