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Quotes by Roman Polanski

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
– Roman Polanski
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
– Roman Polanski
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.
– Roman Polanski
I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.
– Roman Polanski
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
– Roman Polanski
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 gambler for high stakes.
– Roman Polanski
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
– Roman Polanski
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
– Roman Polanski
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.
– Roman Polanski
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
– Roman Polanski
Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
– Roman Polanski
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.
– Roman Polanski
Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
– Roman Polanski
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.
– Roman Polanski