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«Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside
Paris, a Àfteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that
she’d been to see [The Double Life Of] Véronique. She’d gone
once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing
really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul.
She hadn’t known before, but now she knew that the soul does
exist. There’s something very beautiful in that. It was worth
making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year,
sacriÀcing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing
yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that
one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing
as a soul. It’s worth it.»
Krzysztof Kieħlowski