Happy Birthday: Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941–1996)

Happy Birtday director Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941–1996)

Born: June 27, 1941 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Died: March 13, 1996 (age 54) in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Married to:
Maria Cautillo (21 January 1967 – 13 March 1996) (his death) (1 child)

QUOTES:

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I’ll never achieve it; in the same way that I’ll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

[on Ingmar Bergman]: I can identify with what Bergman says about life, about what he says about love. I identify more or less with his attitude towards the world… towards men and women and what we do in everyday life… forgetting about what is most important.

[on Andrei Tarkovsky]: Andrey Tarkovsky was one of the greatest directors of recent years. He’s dead, like most of them. That is, most of them are…