Image: Krzysztof Kieslowski directing actor Irene Jacob on the film *The Double Life of Véronique*

I read this today and it was so wonderfully affirming of the importance of art to life. Film maker Krzysztof Kieslowski (I highly recommend his Three Colours series of movies—sublime) speaks about a beautiful encounter with a viewer of his film The Double Life of Véronique:

“At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she’d been to see my movie. She’d gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say on 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, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, making thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realise that there is such a thing as a soul. It’s worth it.”

(source: @_nitch)