Andrzej Wajda Quotes

• 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, World

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

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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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  Past, Anchors, Literature

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

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• It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

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  Country, Reality, Faces

  "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

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  Movie, Actors, Filmmaking

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• At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

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  Theatre, Television, Active

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

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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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  Reality, Existence, Solidarity

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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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  People, Waiting, Culture

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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.

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  Military, Support, Magnitude

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

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

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  Reality, Vision, Said

  "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

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  Past, Spirit, Film

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

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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.

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  Reality, Years, Theatre

  "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July, 2005.

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

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  Theatre, Difficult, Wells

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

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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.

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  Strong, Motivation, Significant Change

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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.

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  Writing, Reality, Play

  "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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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.

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  Adults, Cinema, Our Society

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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.

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  Years, Transition, Firsts

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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.

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  Movie, Money, Giving

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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

  Hands, Theatre, Directors

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

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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.

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  Doe, Cinema, World

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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.

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  School, Hands, Adults

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

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  Names, Theatre, Television

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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.

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  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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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.

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  Movie, Europe, Actors

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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.

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  Change, Transition, Might

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

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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.

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  Movie, Money, Actors

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

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