hum

Sempre meglio una
brutta verità che
una bella bugia

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.