Roman Polanski Biography

“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre.”

“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 off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.”

“I never made a film which fully satisfied me.”

“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.”

“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, then that's obscenity.”