Roman Polanski Quotes

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

Happy endings make me puke.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!

I did not have a reputation to defend.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.

When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.

I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.

Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.