My favorite director, Roman Polanski, a very pragmatic, precise and logical filmmaker, when asked what’s more important in life: chance or fate, responds (in my translation from an interview in Polish)
“To me it’s something between chance and necessity. It seems to me that chance plays the main part, however if one thinks about it - if one has a realistic approach and thinks that the world begun with the Big Bang - then one has to conclude that everything that happens results from that which was before. Therefore it can’t happen any other way. If one talks to God, one is religious. If however God responds to him, one is schizophrenic. But these are philosophical issues, and we live in times that are unkind to philosophy. Philosophy has been replaced by science. There is no place for mystery.”
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