kieslowski previously admitted that he abandoned documentary filmmaking due to 2 opportunities : the censorship of employees ' 71 , which caused him to doubt whether truth could be telling practically under an unstable regime , and an incident during the filming of station ( 1981 ) in which some of his footage was nearly used as evidence in a criminal case . he decided that fiction not only allow more artistic freedom , but cannot portray actual people more affirmatively .
Kieslowski is a director.