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.
I think that something is happening definitely in Korea that is worth watching.
the worst thing ever written about me. It is obvious that it's not true. I don't think you could find a man who could behave in such a way. But I think it was particularly hurtful as it dishonors my memory of Sharon.
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.
It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.
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.
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.