Roman Polanski quotes
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“Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.
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“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 PolanskiSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.”
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“The best films are because of nobody but the director.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : "The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World". Book by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska, 2006.
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“Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“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.”
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“My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : "The Everything Cryptograms Book". Book by Nikki Katz, 2005.
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“I never made a film which fully satisfied me.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : "Polanski: His Life and Films". Book by Barbara Leaming, 1982.
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“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.”
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“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 PolanskiSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!”
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“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 PolanskiSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.”
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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 PolanskiSource : Playboy magazine, February 1972.
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“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.”
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“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 PolanskiSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.”
-- Roman PolanskiSource : New York Times, February 22, 1976.
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“I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.”
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“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
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