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born 1933 France

Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor.

France
Actors
Film directors
Film producers
Satirists

Also known as: Polanski, Roman, Polański, Roman, Roman Polanski

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22 quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Cinema of Roman Polanski : Dark spaces of the World (2006)

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

Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier.

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.

Even young directors — for most of them, their only standard of achievement is how well their films do on the first weekend or whatever. It worries me.

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

The Everything Cryptograms Book (2005)

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

Polanski: His Life and Films (1982)

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Polanski: His Life and Films (1982)

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.

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

Polanski: His Life and Films (1982)

Michael, I know she’s a nice girl. She’s too bloody nice. She's supposed to be playing a bitch. Every day I have to make her into a bitch.

To producer Michael Klinger (1964)

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.

Polanski: His Life and Films (1982)

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.

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.

Polanski: His Life and Films (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roman Polański (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.