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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.

— Roman Polański

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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.

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