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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

#cinema #closer #coming #despite #directors

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

#capitalism #change #come #communist #concern

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#live #love #love is #ultimate #will

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

#audiences #been #cinema #films #into

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. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #away #dominated #entertainment #extent

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

— Andrzej Wajda

#name #rely #scripts #should #television

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

#beneficial #concerning #difficulty #film #film industry

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

#because #distributors #film #film industry #filmmakers

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#british #definitely #distinguish #english #english language

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

#also #created #film #language #only