Roman Polański Quotes

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

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

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She was the least hypocritical woman you could ever meet: once, when an executive told her that we should ask for single cabins in the transatlantic that brought us to the United States, she simply said, "Why? Everybody knows that we live together."

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

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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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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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People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I've passed through this stage. I lived in a country where these things happened seriously.

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Berlin was great. It's a new generation. If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times.

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

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I'm forced to mix with people of this industry and I can swear that is really difficult to meet people with her nature and her spirit. Generally, everybody is opportunistic here. Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier. When somebody was busy, she was there in a discreet manner to serve you a drink or a coffee.

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