Roman Polański quotes

Roman Polański is a Polish-French film director, producer, and screenwriter renowned for his work in international cinema. His films, such as "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown," and "The Pianist," have received critical acclaim and numerous awards. He continues to generate both admiration for his artistic contributions and controversy due to his personal life. Here are 35 of his quotes:

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

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

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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.

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What's wrong?' I asked. She said her asthma was playing her up.... She was wheezing quite audibly by now. She picked up my towel and said, ‘I'd better rest awhile; otherwise I might pass out.

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I don't know that you can speak of shock ... Nothing is too shocking for me. I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

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There was no doubt about Sandra's experience and lack of inhibition. She spread herself and I entered her. She wasn't unresponsive. Yet, when I asked her softly if she was liking it, she resorted to her favorite expression: ‘It's all right.

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

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Gunson added that it was false to claim, as the present district attorney's office does in their request for my extradition, that the time I spent in Chino was for the purpose of a diagnostic study.

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Without her I feel lost, I can't explain this in words. However there are things that I just can't stand thinking of; the way she and our son died.

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On February 26 last, Roger Gunson, the deputy district attorney in charge of the case in 1977, now retired, testified under oath before Judge Mary Lou Villar in the presence of David Walgren, the present deputy district attorney in charge of the case, who was at liberty to contradict and question him, that on September 16, 1977, Judge Rittenband stated to all the parties concerned that my term of imprisonment in Chino constituted the totality of the sentence I would have to serve.

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33 years ago I pleaded guilty, and I served time at the prison for common law crimes at Chino, not in a VIP prison. That period was to have covered the totality of my sentence. By the time I left prison, the judge had changed his mind and claimed that the time served at Chino did not fulfil the entire sentence, and it is this reversal that justified my leaving the United States.

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I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

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It's weird. I always had the premonition that Sharon belonged to me just for a little while.

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You know, whenever you do something new and original, people run to see it because it's different. Then, if it happens to be successful, the studios rush to imitate it. It becomes commonplace right away. But it's been like that before, I think. Now, the stakes are so gigantic that they cut each other's throats.

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It's already getting more and more difficult to make an ambitious and original film.

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