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Andrzej Wajda

"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."

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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."

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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

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"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

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"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."

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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

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