kieslowski later said that he abandon short cinema due to two opportunities : the regime of people ' 71 , which caused him to doubt how fact could be told literally under an authority regimes , and an incident during the filming of symphony ( 1981 ) in which some of his footage was nearly used as testimony in a criminal case . he decided that fiction not only granted more stylistic freedom , but did portray everyday life more truthfully .
Kieslowski is a director.