Roman Polanski Quotes

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

I think, you know, actors rely on each other all the time.

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I love having made a movie.

I'm new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It's a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That's new for me. I tend to establish with a director - and then two days later, he's gone.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

When someone says 'Action,' you just get on with it and hope that that is translated onto the screen for other people to see. All you can ever do is work as hard as you can on it and make sure you're doing your job.

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.

More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.

I act, produce, and direct. They are three different jobs all within the same realm of creativity. I enjoy all of them equally, but ultimately, I'm an actor.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.

My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

Directing is a whole series of things that would be awkward socially. But I love that. I love actors. Talking with them, touching, laughing, crying.

I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music for a film is fascinating to me.

I have been doing films since I was seven. I really love the medium itself.