Andrzej Wajda Quotes

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• Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to…
• As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
• By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.
• The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is…
• It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage…
• In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
• We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to…
• In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to…
• A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget…
• In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that…
• When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes…
• Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
• Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
• However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
• Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of…
• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There…
• It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the…

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