Top 20 Polanski Film Quotes
#1. Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
David Bailey
#2. It was one of ours originally, but no human being can sprint around a building with their helmet off and backpack missing in a fimbulwinter cold enough to freeze liquid oxygen.
Charles Stross
#4. 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.
Roman Polanski
#5. I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.
Roman Polanski
#6. Motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.
Jim Rohn
#7. Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.
Roman Polanski
#8. Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again.
Allen Coulter
#9. [on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski.
Adam Sweeting
#10. I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
Harvey Weinstein
#11. With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.
Roman Polanski
#13. What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#16. There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief - and even death.
Priscille Sibley
#17. The best films are because of nobody but the director.
Roman Polanski
#18. 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.
Roman Polanski
#19. Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.
Johannes Kepler
#20. We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept - our own selves - that we love.
Fernando Pessoa
