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 want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.

If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!

The torches ran off, and I found myself in a forest, at night, without any light, on skis, and that was not fun - particularly because I was drunk. Luckily at some point I started to see the light of the ski lift. To be in the forest in the middle of the night, it's terrible.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

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.