Roman Polanski Quotes

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• 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.…
• The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.
• It's easy to direct while acting; there's one less person to argue with.
• I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.
• Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.
• The best films are because of nobody but the director.
• I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
• I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
• I still had some honor... I still have some now.
• If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
• Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
• I did not have a reputation to defend.
• I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
• My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
• Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…

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