There's another aspect to all this. I, personally, believe that these compromises which you have to make and this agreement to relinquish your own convictions in certain matters - some better, some worse, of course - are healthy. Because absolute freedom only leads to great works if you're a genius. If you're not, it very often leads to pretentiousness, inferiority and something even worse, which is spending money and making films exclusively for yourself and your nearest friends. Restrictions, necessary restrictions and necessary compromises give rise to a certain ingenuity, inventiveness and inspire energies which enable you to find original solutions and ideas within the script.

- Krzysztof Kieslowski