Roman Polański słynne cytaty
zapytany, dlaczego jego zdaniem w Polsce hitlerowcy nigdy nie mogliby dojść do władzy
Źródło: wyborcza http://wyborcza.pl/1,75410,849977.html, 24 maja 2002
„Granica między fantazją, a rzeczywistością była u mnie zawsze beznadziejnie zamazana.”
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby Niewinny czarodziej z getta, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 5 października 2009
„Nie jestem mizoginistą… ale trzeba przyznać, że one bywają strasznymi zdzirami.”
reakcja na zarzut, że w swoich filmach mści się na kobietach po tym, jak został porzucony przez pierwszą żonę.
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby Spieprzaj do Hollywood!, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 6 października 2009
opinia o reżyserach Nowej Fali i ich zauroczeniu rewoltą paryską wygłoszona w Cannes w 1968.
Źródło: tnv24.pl http://www.tvn24.pl/0,1573063,0,1,polanski-berlusconi-pozdrawia-jak-hitler,wiadomosc.html, 14 listopada 2008
Roman Polański cytaty
do koleżanki, pierwszego i ostatniego dnia w przedszkolu.
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby Niewinny czarodziej z getta, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 5 października 2009
„Możesz się ze mną kłócić, Faye, lecz pamiętaj, że nie mogę się mylić. Jestem reżyserem.”
fragment rozmowy z Faye Dunaway na planie Chinatown.
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby 28 ran Sharon Tate, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7 października 2009
o Silvio Berlusconim
Źródło: tnv24.pl http://www.tvn24.pl/0,1573063,0,1,polanski-berlusconi-pozdrawia-jak-hitler,wiadomosc.html, 14 listopada 2008
o zwiastunach filmowych.
Źródło: wywiad dla programu telewizyjnego Shootout
odpowiedź na zarzut dziennikarza „Le Nouvel Observateur” (w 1978) że spał z 13-latką.
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby 28 ran Sharon Tate, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7 października 2009
„Istniały tylko dwa punkty widzenia: jego i jego.”
amerykański producent filmowy Robert Evans o wspólnej pracy z reżyserem.
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby 28 ran Sharon Tate, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7 października 2009
„Pracę z Deneuve można porównać do tanga tańczonego z partnerką najwyższej klasy.”
opinia o Catherine Deneuve.
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby Spieprzaj do Hollywood!, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 6 października 2009
„Jeśli lubi się kino, często lubi się stereotypy.”
Źródło: culture.pl http://www.culture.pl/baza-film-pelna-tresc/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/roman-polanski
Źródło: Donata Subbotko, Roman Polański. Wyjście z matni, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 24–25 lipca 2010.
„Przywykłem do tego. Uciekam przez całe życie.”
w odpowiedzi na pytanie francuskiego dziennikarza, jakie to uczucie być uciekinierem (w 1978).
Źródło: reportaż Jacka Szczerby 28 ran Sharon Tate, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 7 października 2009
Alle Polen waren Antisemiten. Nach tausend Jahren Vatikan-Propaganda war das Teil ihrer Kultur. Jeder Bauer, dem Sie erzählt hätten, Jesus war Jude, hätte Sie sofort mit der Axt erschlagen. Unvorstellbar, was er mit Ihnen gemacht hätte, wenn Sie dazu noch gesagt hätten, die Jungfrau Maria sei jüdisch. (niem.)
Źródło: „Stern”, 26 grudnia 2005, Mir ist diese Sorte Interview zuwider!
zapytany przez dziennikarkę Katarzynę Janowską, czy zgadza się z tezą, że Polacy byli wspólnikami Trzeciej Rzeszy w Zagładzie Żydów.
Źródło: Wywiad Katarzyny Janowskiej z Romanem Polańskim, Rezerwacja. Wydanie specjalne, „Rezerwacja”, Onet.pl, 2 maja 2018, https://vod.pl/programy-onetu/rezerwacja-wydanie-specjalne-205/441qtg7?utm_source=onet40&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share_from_detail_top
spytany, dlaczego wspomnienia Władysława Szpilmana tak bardzo go poruszyły.
Źródło: filmweb.pl https://www.filmweb.pl/news/Polański%3A+%22%27Pianista%27+to+mój+najważniejszy+film%22-7956, 5 września 2002
Roman Polański: Cytaty po angielsku
"Roman Polanski: An Exclusive Interview" by Taylor Montague http://web.archive.org/web/20041121095701/http://www.geocities.com/mishaca/interviews/polanski.html
Kontekst: It's already getting more and more difficult to make an ambitious and original film. There are less and less independent producers or independent companies and an increasing number of corporations who are more interested in balance sheets than in artistic achievement. They want to make a killing each time they produce a film. They're only interested in the lowest common denominator because they're trying to reach the widest audience. And you got some kind of entropy. That's the danger; they look more alike, those films. The style is all melting and it all looks the same. Even young directors — for most of them, their only standard of achievement is how well their films do on the first weekend or whatever. It worries me. But then, from time to time, you have a film like The Usual Suspects or.... I'm trying to think of something American with some kind of originality... Pulp Fiction.
Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)
“It's already getting more and more difficult to make an ambitious and original film.”
"Roman Polanski: An Exclusive Interview" by Taylor Montague http://web.archive.org/web/20041121095701/http://www.geocities.com/mishaca/interviews/polanski.html
Kontekst: It's already getting more and more difficult to make an ambitious and original film. There are less and less independent producers or independent companies and an increasing number of corporations who are more interested in balance sheets than in artistic achievement. They want to make a killing each time they produce a film. They're only interested in the lowest common denominator because they're trying to reach the widest audience. And you got some kind of entropy. That's the danger; they look more alike, those films. The style is all melting and it all looks the same. Even young directors — for most of them, their only standard of achievement is how well their films do on the first weekend or whatever. It worries me. But then, from time to time, you have a film like The Usual Suspects or.... I'm trying to think of something American with some kind of originality... Pulp Fiction.
“Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier.”
Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)
Kontekst: I'm forced to mix with people of this industry and I can swear that is really difficult to meet people with her nature and her spirit. Generally, everybody is opportunistic here. Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier. When somebody was busy, she was there in a discreet manner to serve you a drink or a coffee.
“She was the least hypocritical woman you could ever meet”
Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)
Kontekst: She was the least hypocritical woman you could ever meet: once, when an executive told her that we should ask for single cabins in the transatlantic that brought us to the United States, she simply said, "Why? Everybody knows that we live together."
Polanski : His Life and Films (1982)
Kontekst: People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I've passed through this stage. I lived in a country where these things happened seriously.
"The Pianist Interview" by Marilyn Cole Lownes http://minadream.com/romanpolanski/ThePianistInterview.htm
Kontekst: Berlin was great. It’s a new generation. If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times.
Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)
Kontekst: I'm forced to mix with people of this industry and I can swear that is really difficult to meet people with her nature and her spirit. Generally, everybody is opportunistic here. Sharon had grace and charm; she knew how to make anybody's life easier. When somebody was busy, she was there in a discreet manner to serve you a drink or a coffee.
"Roman Polanski: An Exclusive Interview" by Taylor Montague
Kontekst: You know, whenever you do something new and original, people run to see it because it's different. Then, if it happens to be successful, the studios rush to imitate it. It becomes commonplace right away. But it's been like that before, I think. Now, the stakes are so gigantic that they cut each other's throats. So if most of the films are failures, then those that succeed so spectacularly, so commercially, become the norm. It's like a roulette for the studios. The problem with it is that it becomes more and more of a committee. Before, you dealt with the studio. It had one or two persons and now you have masses of executives who have to justify their existence and write so-called "creative notes" and have creative meetings. They obsess about the word creative probably because they aren't.
“I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.”
Polanski : His Life and Films (1982)
“My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.”
As quoted in The Everything Cryptograms Book (2005) by Nikki Katz
I can remain silent no longer (2010)
As quoted in Atlas magazine, Vol. 20 (1971), p. 56, and The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979) by Gary Herman, p. 26
“It's weird. I always had the premonition that Sharon belonged to me just for a little while.”
On his murdered wife, Sharon Tate, in an interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)
“It's easy to direct while acting — there’s one less person to argue with.”
New York Times (22 February 1976)
“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.”
As quoted in Values of the Wise : Aspiring to "The Life of Value" (2004) by Jason Merchey, p. 330
I can remain silent no longer (2010)
“Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.”
As quoted in The Cinema of Roman Polanski : Dark spaces of the World (2006) by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska, p. 146
As quoted in Shakespearean Criticism : Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations (1985) by Laurie Lanzen Harris, p. 11
Interview in Playboy magazine (February 1972); also quoted in Make It Again, Sam : A Survey of Movie Remakes (1975) by Michael B. Druxman, p. 105
Roman by Polanski (1984)
Interview https://books.google.ca/books?id=umhoFsnYri8C with Martin Amis (1979), published in Visiting Mrs Nabokov : And Other Excursions (1993), this was modified to censor the word "fuck" when quoted in "Roman Polanski: 'Everyone else fancies little girls too'" by Michael Deacon http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/
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