Cinema Quote by Andrzej Wajda Download Open image “However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.” — Andrzej Wajda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Filmmaking Polish
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I can't remember who said, 'No film is completed, just abandoned,' but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and occupied by… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys -… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence. — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality. — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry.… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre. — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
