“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.” GivingFilmActorsMoneyIndustryInstanceFilmmakerMovieFilmmakingNot InterestedTicketsLegislationPercentagesFilm IndustryDistributors Author:Andrzej Wajda
“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.” MightFilmChangeEconomySourceIndustryCapitalismConcernSignificantCommunistTransitionFundingFilm IndustrySignificant Change Author:Andrzej Wajda
“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.” SupportMilitaryIndustrySovietTransformedIncapablePolishMagnitudeSuperfluous Author:Andrzej Wajda
“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.” StatesWould BeFilmActorsTelevisionSourceIndustryDifficultyAffairMovieFilmmakingLegislationBeneficialFundingPolishFilm Industry Author: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.” WorldDoeWholeLanguageCasesIndustryEntertainmentWhole WorldFranceCinemaEnglish LanguageEntertainment Industry Author:Andrzej Wajda
