"To me, the director is a superstar."
- Roman Polanski
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His work, inspired by his own feelings of rejection and alienation as left-leaning and overweight bi-sexual in the repressive new ‘economic miracle’ of West Germany, was forever willing to tackle difficult subject matter such as terrorism, racial tension, alienation, class exploitation (on the political left as well as right), trans-sexuality and masochism in a provocative but non-sensationalist manner.
pretty much sums him up.