Andrzej Wajda famous quotes

05-16-2025

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Reality #Years #Theatre
At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Theatre #Television #Active
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Reality #Vision #Said
Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Past #Spirit #Film
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Filmmaking #Polish
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 being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Military #Support #Magnitude
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 is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Would Be #Television #Film
It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Theatre #Difficult #Wells
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 other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#School #Hands #Adults
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Names #Theatre #Television
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Doe #Cinema #World
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Adults #Cinema #Our Society
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Hands #Theatre #Directors
Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Cinema #Film #Made
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 be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Past #Anchors #Literature
By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Reality #Existence #Solidarity
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 allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Writing #Reality #Play
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Country #Reality #Faces
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Giving #Tickets #Film
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Europe #Television #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 be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#People #Waiting #Culture
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.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Years #Transition #Firsts
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 capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Change #Transition #Might
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 committed less and less money to filmmaking.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Money #Novelty #States
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 way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Strong #Motivation #Political
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 our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Understanding #Perception #Way

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