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Andrzej Wajda

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

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"How do you know that past exist?"

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"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."

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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."

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"Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow."

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"The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?"

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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

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"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality."
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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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"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."
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"However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared."
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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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"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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