Daily Inspiration Quote by Krzysztof Kieslowski

Kieslowski is aiming at TV not as a gadget but as an institution with a built-in allergy to ambiguity. The jab lands because it’s less a complaint about “bad journalism” than a diagnosis of an industrial aesthetic: television needs speed, legibility, and churn. Complexity is expensive. It takes time, it resists tidy visuals, it demands silence and patience - all the things broadcast schedules and commercial breaks are designed to disrupt.

The phrasing “doesn’t like to see” is doing quiet work. It suggests a willful blindness, an editorial preference masquerading as common sense. TV isn’t merely failing to capture the world; it’s selecting a world that can be narrated in oppositions: white/black, good/bad. Those binaries flatter viewers with moral clarity and protect networks from risk. Nuance invites argument, and argument can scare advertisers, politicians, and ratings.

Coming from Kieslowski, the critique is also self-portraiture. His films (especially the later work) build drama out of moral fog: people who mean well and do harm, accidents that feel like fate, choices that don’t resolve into lessons. He’s defending a cinematic ethic in which truth is slippery and responsibility is shared, not assigned. In the post-communist media landscape he lived through, “simple ideas” weren’t neutral; they were tools - propaganda’s cousin, PR’s twin. The quote’s sting is that it treats simplification as a comfort we’re sold, not a limitation we’re stuck with.