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Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes

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

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: polish
Birth: June 27, 1941 - March 13, 1996

Topics

Sunset Sunrise Optimism Me Walking

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

Travel School Environmental Believe

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

Life Son Culture Parents Thought

I'm never going to be an improv comedian.

Never Improv Going Comedian

I watch a lot DVDs. I don't leave my room too much.

Too Much Leave Room Watch Much Too

I'm sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries.

Money Pizza College French Fries Up

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Beauty Devil Same Same Thing Thing

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.

Music Challenge Talking You Alive

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

Problem New More Searching Gap

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.

Service Grateful Dogs Conclusions

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.

Children People Influence Church Way

Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.

Music Find Classical Music Things

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

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