I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone — and this is my biggest satisfaction. - Roman Polanski

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

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.

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