Roman Polanski famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Inspirational #Revenge #Achieve
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
-- Roman Polanski

#Movie #Inspiring #Humorous
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

#War #People #Upset
Happy endings make me puke.
-- Roman Polanski

#Happy Endings #Puke
I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.
-- Roman Polanski

#Past #Baggage #Accepting
The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.
-- Roman Polanski

#Answers #Showmanship #Whole
The best films are because of nobody but the director.
-- Roman Polanski

#Directors #Film #Best Film
Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
-- Roman Polanski

#Feelings #Terrible
Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
-- Roman Polanski

#Interesting #Normal #Boring
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.
-- Roman Polanski

#Sometimes #Wonder #Cry
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
-- Roman Polanski

#Expression #Desire #Way
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
-- Roman Polanski

#Film #Made #Satisfied
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.
-- Roman Polanski

#Philosophy #Passion #Thinking
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

#Satisfaction #Envious #Has Beens
If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!
-- Roman Polanski

#Girl #Judging #Want
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.
-- Roman Polanski

#Eye #Alive #Helpful
With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.
-- Roman Polanski

#Bored #Challenges #Needs
I did not have a reputation to defend.
-- Roman Polanski

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

#Directors #Actors #Matter
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.
-- Roman Polanski

#Ambition #Warrior #Winning
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.
-- Roman Polanski

#Want #Film #Certain
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

#Paris #Car #Matter
It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.
-- Roman Polanski

#Acting #Arguing #Easy
I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.
-- Roman Polanski

#Thinking #Drug #Would Be
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.
-- Roman Polanski

#Country #Children #Hollywood

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