[Polanski shoots in Europe and generally works with European producing partners. He has nonetheless managed to attract Hollywood stars - like Sigourney Weaver in 1994's] Death and the Maiden ... Frantic.

I don't answer questions about my private life, ... Hollywood Homicide.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.