Quotes by Andrzej Wajda - Page 1

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Film
Past
Spirit
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At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Active
Television
Theatre
Visibly
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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
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Cinema
Film
Made
Audiences
Cinemas
Films
Gained
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However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Movie
Actors
Filmmaking
Polish
Disappeared
Mode
Virtually
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Country
Faces
Helpless
Reality
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It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Difficult
Theatre
Wells
Work Difficult Find
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Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
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Committees
Funding
Established
Deciding
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As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Reality
Said
Vision
Create
Earlier
Writers
Literary
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Adaptation
Implied
Names
Rely
Scripts
Television
Theatre
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By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.
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Existence
Reality
Solidarity
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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 / Film Director
Cinema
Contemporary
Nevertheless
Poland
Reality
Theatre
Years
Degree
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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
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Abandoned
Void
Adult
Appeared
Audiences
Cinemas
Previous
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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 / Film Director
Movie
Actors
Broadcasters
Europe
Filmmaking
Legislation
Not Interested
Television
Assist
Supporting
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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 / Film Director
Available
Firsts
Screens
Transition
Years
Systemic
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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 / Film Director
Cinema
Directors
Hands
Theatre
Closer
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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 / Film Director
Difficulty
Play
Reality
Theatre
Writing
Life Work Good
Allowed
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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 / Film Director
Movie
Money
Actors
Committed
Filmmaking
Novelty
Budget
Funds
Less Money
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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.
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Perception
Understanding
World
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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 / Film Director
Cases
Budget
Financed
Partly
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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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Percent
Screens
Audiences
Dominated
Extent
Result
Suddenly
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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 be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
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Anchors
Literature
Past
Used
Also
Consequently
In The Past
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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 / Film Director
Movie
Money
Actors
Distributors
Film Industry
Giving
Instance
Legislation
Not Interested
Percentage
Sales
Sharing
Ticket
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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 / Film Director
Change
Communist
Concern
Film Industry
Might
Significant
Transition
Fundamentally
Sources
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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 / Film Director
Adults
Contemporary
Hands
School
Secondary School
Spectacles
Adult
Attempts
Primary
Secondary
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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.
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Collapse
Culture
Initiative
People
Retreat
Soviet
Soviet Union
Waiting
Union
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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 / Film Director
Cinema
Doe
English Language
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry
France
World
English
Case
Exist
Equivalent
Global
Italy
Opens
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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 / Film Director
Adults
Cinema
Our Society
Pressured
Significant
Spheres
Adult
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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.
Andrzej Wajda / Film Director
Casting
Covered
Funding
Presenting
Produce
Bodies
Budget
Project
Indicate
Leading
Script
Stages
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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 / Film Director
Incapable
Magnitude
Military
Polish
Soviet
Superfluous
Support
Transformed
Anything Else
Phenomena
Existed
Foresee
Great Part
Proved
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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 / Film Director
Characteristics
Forty
Republic
Traits
Time Reality People
Centuries
Developed
Forty Years
Included
Our People
Preserved
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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 / Film Director
Motivation
Psychological
Significant
Significant Change
Strong
Significant Changes
Underwent
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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 / Film Director
Movie
Actors
Beneficial
Difficulty
Film Industry
Funding
Legislation
Television
Would Be
Affairs
Concerning
Sources
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