Quotes by Roman Polanski

• 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.
• 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.
• Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
• Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.
• My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
• I still had some honor... I still have some now.
• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
• I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
• 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.
• 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.