More from Roman Polanski

  1. My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
  2. People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I've passed through this stage. I lived in …
  3. 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 matter…
  4. Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
  5. I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
  6. 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, th…
  7. 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 …
  8. I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

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