Daily Inspiration Quote by Andrzej Wajda

The barb in Wajda's "Even better" lands because it drips with the kind of irony only a veteran of state culture can afford. He frames bureaucratic multiplication as an upgrade, a sly inversion that exposes how "reform" in publicly managed art often means adding another lock to the same door. Two committees, not one: twice the gatekeeping, twice the paperwork, twice the opportunity for politics to masquerade as taste.

Wajda came of age and made his name in a Poland where cinema was never just cinema. Funding decisions doubled as ideological risk assessments. In that context, a committee isn't a neutral panel of experts; it's a mechanism for disciplining narrative. Splitting authority into two bodies sounds like democratization, but the subtext is fragmentation as control: if one committee might be persuaded by merit, another can still veto, delay, or demand "adjustments" that sand down anything sharp. The artist is forced to negotiate not with an audience but with a maze.

The line also captures a specific post-communist hangover: the persistence of institutional habits after the slogans change. New structures arrive wearing the language of transparency and pluralism, yet they keep the same incentive - avoid controversy, reward the safe, punish the inconvenient. Wajda's wit is economical: he doesn't need to rant about censorship. He just praises the machinery and lets the absurdity indict itself.