Roman Polanski

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

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.

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.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I don't like to get in front of people.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?