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Some time ago I was in
Copenhagen with professor Jerzy Toeplitz, who praised the
qualities of the Lódz Film School. He was speaking
English and maybe for this reason I soon realized that I
had attended the best Film School I could attend. The
subjects that the teachers taught and the general
organization of practical and theoretical activities,
according to professor Toeplitz, formed an excellent
pedagogical system, which gave to the average student the
opportunity to understand the mysteries of film art and
to have a job. I grew silent and pensive: I could not
believe to what he was saying to me. I had finished the
School, but according to my memories I could not remember
any of the pedagogical exercises that professor Toeplitz
had mentioned. On the contrary, I remembered all the
wasted time I had spent, sitting on the stairs of the
School, waiting for the teachers who never arrived from
Warsaw. I also remember the awful
impression to waste time and to be far away from the
places where something important, concerning the future
of Polish cinematography, was occurring witout me.
In the meantime, I also remembered that
in less than one year, after finishing my studies, I had
made my first feature film on my own. All my friends
worked in the film industry and as far as I remember, it
was rather easy for me to write a screenplay. It was easy
to persuade the actors, to obtain what I wanted from the
art director, whose artistic choices I succeeded to mould
according to my personal taste.
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