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
As far as those events are concerned, I would not even start to justify myself.... What I did was wrong and I don't see why I should go back to this for the purposes of this trial.... I made one mistake, and I am still suffering for that.
They see me working ... but the result of my work escaped them,
Human life is just a given series, an endless series of such moments,
I had to go through it, ... I never had a doubt that I would win. Because the truth always wins, sooner or later.
The best films are because of nobody but the director.
Happy endings make me puke.
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.
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.
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.
Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
I did not have a reputation to defend.
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.