Softening the edges around Fagin wasn't the only change worked into the current version by Mr. Polanski and Mr. Harwood, previous collaborators on The Pianist. ... to make it acceptable to today's audience. (Roman Polanski)
I think that something is happening definitely in Korea that is worth watching. (Roman Polanski)
People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I've passed through this stage. I lived in a country where these things happened seriously. (Roman Polanski)
Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring. (Roman Polanski)
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could. (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)
to walk for kilometers without socks in boots with bloody feet. (Roman Polanski)
is against any kind of principle of show business. If you install some buttons that one can press when decisions should be made at any point of a story, there would be no story. (Roman Polanski)
I had to go through it, ... I never had a doubt that I would win. Because the truth always wins, sooner or later. (Roman Polanski)
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. (Roman Polanski)
There's no other place in the world where ... we could build a 19th-century London and shoot in it for months. (Roman Polanski)
Is he unconsciously drawn to survival stories You should ask my psychiatrist, if I had one, ... But the answer is maybe. Any kind of survival is a subject I enjoy dealing with. (Roman Polanski)
In consideration of the horrible things that has happened to the poor man I can almost understand.....or if the (girl) now woman felt justice needed to be served...Having grown up during Nazi Germany, having his wife, child and friends horrendously murder (Roman Polanski)
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)
I knew how people treat a child whose parents are dead, (Roman Polanski)