Roman Polanski - biography

“[Catherine Deneuve] looks like a professional virgin - not Marilyn Monroe or Lolita, but the niece of a man who’d make her sit in his lap.”

“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.”

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

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

“I never made a film which fully satisfied me.”

“I want people to go to the movies.  I am the man of the spectacle.  I’m playing.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Normal love isn’t interesting.  I assure you that it’s incredibly boring.”

“I did not have a reputation to defend.”

“TV has changed the world by changing people’s attitudes.  When they are born with a TV set in their room - well, you can’t fool them anymore.”

“I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I’m not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.”

“Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.”

Roman Polanski directed the following films:
Rower (1955)
Usmiech zebiczny (1957)
Rozbijemy zabawe... (1957)
Morderstwo (1957)
Dwaj ludzie z szafa (1958)
Lampa (1959)
Gdy spadaja anioly (1959)
Le Gros et le maigre (1961)
Nóz w wodzie (1962)
Ssaki (1963)
Les Plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
Repulsion (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
What? (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
Le Locataire (1976)
Tess (1979)
Pirates (1986)
Frantic (1988)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Death and the Maiden (1994)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
The Pianist (2002)
Oliver Twist (2005)
Chacun son cinéma (2007)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Carnage (2011)

Roman Polanski has appeared in the following films:
Trzy opowiesci (1953)
Zaczarowany rower (1955)
Rower (1955)
Godzina bez slonca (1955)
Pokolenie (1955)
Nikodem Dyzma (1956)
Wraki (1957)
Koniec nocy (1957)
Dwaj ludzie z szafa (1958)
Co rekne zena? (1958)
Lampa (1959)
Gdy spadaja anioly (1959)
Lotna (1959)
Do widzenia, do jutra (1960)
Zezowate szczescie (1960)
Niewinni czarodzieje (1960)
Le Gros et le maigre (1961)
Ostroznie, Yeti! (1961)
Samson (1961)
Nóz w wodzie (1962)
Repulsion (1965)
Dance of the Vampires (1967)
The Magic Christian (1969)
What? (1972)
Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Le Locataire (1976)
Chassé-croisé (1982)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (1992)
Una Pura formalità (1994)
Hommage à Alfred Lepetit (2000)
The Pianist (2002)
Zemsta (2002)
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
Caos calmo (2008)

Roman Polanski contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Rower (1955)
Rozbijemy zabawe... (1957)
Morderstwo (1957)
Usmiech zebiczny (1957)
Dwaj ludzie z szafa (1958)
Lampa (1959)
Gdy spadaja anioly (1959)
Le Gros et le maigre (1961)
Nóz w wodzie (1962)
Ssaki (1963)
Aimez-vous les femmes? (1964)
Les Plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
Repulsion (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
Dance of the Vampires (1967)
La Fille d’en face (1968)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
A Day at the Beach (1970)
Le Bateau sur l’herbe (1971)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
What? (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
Le Locataire (1976)
Tess (1979)
Pirates (1986)
Frantic (1988)
Bitter Moon (1992)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Carnage (2011)