More - Roman Polanski Quotes

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Roman Polanski

 American Musician Cinema

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 Polanski

 American Musician

to walk for kilometers without socks in boots with bloody feet.

Roman Polanski

 Bloody

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.

Roman Polanski

 

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

Roman Polanski

 American Musician Apartment

Nothing is too shocking for me

Roman Polanski

 

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

Roman Polanski

 American Musician Love

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 Polanski

 American Musician Violence

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.

Roman Polanski

 Confidence Failure

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

Roman Polanski

 American Musician Discipline