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Polanski breaks off all ties with Hollywood

Dec 14, 2005, 15:42 GMT

Hamburg - Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski said he will not direct any more Hollywood movies, Germany's Stern magazine reported in its edition which is to be published Thursday. File photo: Polish film director Roman Polanski. EPA/FRANCESCA RUGGIERI

File photo: Polish film director Roman Polanski. EPA/FRANCESCA RUGGIERIThe 72-year-old Polanski, who received the best director Oscar in 2003 for his Holocaust movie 'The Pianist', told the magazine Hollywood movies were governed by a simple rule - the more childish the project, the easier it is to get funding for it. The Polish-born director, who has lived in Paris for the past 27 years, said he failed to see why he should invest two years of his life in something that people had forgotten about after a few minutes. A fugitive of the U.S. justice system, which charged him with unlawfully having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, Polanski did not travel to Hollywood to accept the Oscar for 'The Pianist' for fear of being rearrested. Britain's Adrien Brody, who played the lead role in the film, won the Best Actor award. Even if the U.S. waives the charges against him, Polanski said he still wanted nothing more to do with Hollywood. He said he feared being hounded by the U.S. media because of his past. Asked if his two children were familiar with such Polanski classics as 'Chinatown' or 'Dance of the Vampires', he said two years ago he showed them 'The Pianist'. Afterwards, his son Elvis, who was five at the time, said he preferred Spiderman. © dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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