Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański, known professionally as Roman Polanski, is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Having made films in Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers". Born in Paris to Polish parents, he moved with his family back to Polandin 1937, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Holocaust, was educated in Poland, and became a director of both art house...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 August 1933
CityParis, France
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.
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 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.
I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.
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.
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.
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.
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
Happy endings make me puke.
The best films are because of nobody but the director.
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.
I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.