Roman Polanski Quotes

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

  Roman Polanski

  Inspirational, Revenge, Achieve

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Roman Polanski

  Movie, Inspiring, Humorous

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• 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

  War, People, Upset

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happy endings make me puke.

  Roman Polanski

  Happy Endings, Puke

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• I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

  Roman Polanski

  Past, Baggage, Accepting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

  Roman Polanski

  Answers, Showmanship, Whole

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• Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

  Roman Polanski

  Feelings, Terrible

  "The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World". Book by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska, 2006.

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• The best films are because of nobody but the director.

  Roman Polanski

  Directors, Film, Best Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Roman Polanski

  Interesting, Normal, Boring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Roman Polanski

  Sometimes, Wonder, Cry

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

  Roman Polanski

  Expression, Desire, Way

  "The Everything Cryptograms Book". Book by Nikki Katz, 2005.

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• I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

  Roman Polanski

  Film, Made, Satisfied

  "Polanski: His Life and Films". Book by Barbara Leaming, 1982.

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• I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

  Roman Polanski

  Satisfaction, Envious, Has Beens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Roman Polanski

  Philosophy, Passion, Thinking

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• Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.

  Roman Polanski

  Eye, Alive, Helpful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!

  Roman Polanski

  Girl, Judging, Want

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• I did not have a reputation to defend.

  Roman Polanski

  Reputation

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• To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

  Roman Polanski

  Directors, Actors, Matter

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• 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

  Paris, Car, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

  Roman Polanski

  Bored, Challenges, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Roman Polanski

  Ambition, Warrior, Winning

  Playboy magazine, February 1972.

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• 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.

  Roman Polanski

  Want, Film, Certain

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• It's easy to direct while acting - there's one less person to argue with.

  Roman Polanski

  Acting, Arguing, Easy

  New York Times, February 22, 1976.

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• I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.

  Roman Polanski

  Thinking, Drug, Would Be

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• Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.

  Roman Polanski

  Artist, People, Hollywood

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