Krzysztof Kieślowski said this quote

Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my own: the physically painful impotence and sorrow that assail me when I see a man weeping at the bus stop, when I observe people struggling vainly to get close to others, when I see someone eating up the left-overs in a cheap restaurant, when I see the first blotches on a woman's hand and know that she too is bitterly aware of them, when I see the kind of appalling and irreparable injustice that so visibly scars the human face. I want this pain to come across to my audience, to see this physical agony, which I think I am beginning to fathom, to seep into my work.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

That's the greatest sin a director can commit, to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski