75 Quotes by Roman Polanski

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

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

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

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 don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

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 want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.