"This is a rare and unique opportunity to see a gathering of such important directors and it's a shame to have such poor questions," he said as he prepared to leave.
"It's the computer that's brought you down," he sneered at the gathered rows of reporters and critics.
"You're not interested in cinema - you don't even type. You just transfer things from your computer.
"I suggest we go for lunch," he said, and left.
The other directors sat on.
The queries by the journalists ranged from the banal - "how long does it take to make a short?" - to the culturally indignant - "why aren't more films made in Arabic?"
The question that preceded Polanski's dramatic exit was directed to New Zealand director Jane Campion (whose 1993 The Piano also picked up a Palme d'Or).
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