75 Quotes by Roman Polanski

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.

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.

Happy endings make me puke.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

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.

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

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

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

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.