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Roman Polanski

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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


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


— Roman Polanski


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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


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I did not have a reputation to defend.


— Roman Polanski


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I never made a film which fully satisfied me.


— Roman Polanski


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I still had some honor... I still have some now.


— Roman Polanski


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


— Roman Polanski


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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.


— Roman Polanski


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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


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


— Roman Polanski


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The film's themes situations visual motifs and effects clearly reflect the influence of early surrealist cinema as well as horror movies of the 1950s – particularly Luis Buñuel's Un chien Andalou Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 1970s
Macbeth (1971)
Polanski abandoned his project and did not resume working until the production of a film version of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Polanski's first feature-length film Knife in the Water (1962) made in Poland was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was beaten by Federico Fellini's 8½. The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director along with numerous international awards. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards was a critical and box-office success.

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