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

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I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

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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.

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There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

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I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

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Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

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

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I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Director

Born: June 27th, 1941

Died: March 13th, 1996

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