“The opening night of a film is a sad night for a director. If the film is a success, he will look around at the group of friends who were responsible for making it so and realise that he will never work together again with all these same people and with the same spirit that infused the group during the preceding weeks and months. If on the contrary the film is a dud, he will begin picking it apart from that same opening night onward, finding errors everywhere.”
“…for a director who has grown up with film, video is a technique that offers no resistance. The lighting is always sufficient, the camera movement incredibly light and facile – too facile- and what is more, if you don’t like what you just did you can simply erase and start again from scratch, which means the possibilities are infinite. This means you work without tension, without the familiar atmosphere of being on the edge, constantly at risk. The problem, of course, is that that sense of risk, is precisely what characterises the work in a good film.”
Andrzej Wajda
The second quote could be summed up thus, because life happens spontaneously, risk is involved, a film that purports to represent life must embrace this experience in its creation.
