Andrzej Wajda Quotes

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

Time, Money, Find

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

Great, Else, Support

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
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Reality, Said, Vision

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
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Time, Same, Theatre

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
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Made, Young, Wanted

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
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Two, Film, State

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 script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
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Nothing, Together, Enough

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
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Past, Made, Spirit

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
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Old, However, Filmmaking

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
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Film, Interested, Television

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 few special cases, most films are made this way.
Andrzej Wajda

Made, Special, After

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.
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Before, After, American

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Andrzej Wajda

Time, Reality, Worst

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

Great, Strong, Focus

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
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Reality, Country, Face

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
Andrzej Wajda

Work, Find, Difficult

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.
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Past, Used, Language

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.
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Reality, Last, Theatre

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

Great, School, Big

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

Young, Wanted, Theatre

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, Thought, Film

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

Life, Society, Made

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
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Away, American, Used

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
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Theatre, Name, Television

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

Life, Work, Good

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Nationality: Polish

Born: March 6, 1926

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