On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
- Andrzej WajdaIn societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
- Guy DebordCall for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
- Andrew Buckle