- It is difficult for us to live in a world without description ...anything that can be used to describe the world is used by propaganda to construct a theoretically appealing notion...
unfortunately the end result is the same: I mean, you feel like you have a gun against your head. We live by the concept of fraternity, equality and justice, but in fact there is no fraternity, equality and justice at all.
When Zhang Muzhi talked about Cannes, the goose city, Kieslowski said:
- Because politics has always existed around us. In those days...I thought it had a lot of meaning.
I thought politics really helped everything and most importantly, it was up to us. It's directly linked to hope... everything will be fine, any reform is possible, everything will be pushed in the right direction. No one would have thought that communism would collapse on its own, no one thought so. Instead, we long for an easier life and a little bit of freedom.
When Jiang Wen was still obsessively educating people on how to use a gun, how to put a gun to his head, with a gun in his hand, and follow him, Kieslowski said:
- I make movies to talk to people. Of course, any dialogue involves some kind of responsibility for the interlocutor. But let's not magnify this. It is still just a conversation, an exchange of opinions, thoughts or emotions. The result is that a person is either wiser or dumber. That's all responsibility...
I know there are people who believe that arts and culture are responsible for the state of the country and the spirit of society. But I don't think so, and I don't think I'm responsible for anything on that level.
- Politics will never be the subject. During martial law, I realized that politics didn't really matter, they didn't really solve important problems for humanity.
- In this life, there is no truth, only illusion.
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