Andrzej Wajda Quotes


You are doing the right thing. - Andrzej Wajda



With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV. - Andrzej Wajda



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. - Andrzej Wajda



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



We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention camp) that people received, including from my own father. All of a sudden the letters stopped coming. We were aware that something happened in the spring of 1940. There was no doubt. - Andrzej Wajda



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. - Andrzej Wajda