Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański, known professionally as Roman Polanski, is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Having made films in Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers". Born in Paris to Polish parents, he moved with his family back to Polandin 1937, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Holocaust, was educated in Poland, and became a director of both art house...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 August 1933
CityParis, France
I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.
With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.
I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see miles around you, and the sun is almost down .
It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have a play or any kind of novel is to set the roots in a concrete place.
I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills.
It's easy to direct while acting; there's one less person to argue with.
I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.
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 see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.
I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.
I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.
When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.