Roman Polanski Quotes

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

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

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.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

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

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

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

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.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

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.

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.

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

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

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.

I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.

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

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

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

I did not have a reputation to defend.

I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see miles around you, and the sun is almost down .

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

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

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

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

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.

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.

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

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

I don't know anyone who is not using drugs for the reason that they're illegal.

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