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.

His fourth and current wife is theatre costume designer and actress Krystyna Zachwatowicz. In 1989 he was the President of the Jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. Andrzej Wajda (Polish pronunciation: [ˈandʐɛj ˈvajda]; born 6 March 1926) is a Polish film director.

He is known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation (1954) Kanał (1956) and AAndrzej Wajdas and Diamonds (1958). Andrzej Wajda (Polish pronunciation: [ˈandʐɛj ˈvajda]; born 6 March 1926) is a Polish film director.