"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."

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Source : "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

Andrzej Wajda

#Military Quotes #Support Quotes #Magnitude Quotes

“There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last”
“Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even if there were one ideal pattern for society, it could be arrived at in an a priori fashion. And even supposing that some great genius did come along with a blueprint, who could have the confidence that it could work”
“In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must contain '...a legal clause whereby the contract is immediately cancelled if overnight the attitude of the paper toward Germany should be changed.”
“The end of all worship leading is worship living. We must live our worship if we expect others to live their own worship.”
“To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate”
“Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.”
“Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.96, tredition
“I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.”

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