In the months since Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland, you've probably spent entire hours, maybe even entire days pitying poor, poor Roman Polanski. Just the thought of him sitting there under house arrest in his beautiful Swiss chalet, cruelly confined like a caged bird that plead guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old after being arrested on charges of rape and sodomy and then flew to France because it didn't like the way its case was going—why, it's enough to make you cry. At the very least, you've probably contemplated dusting off your old "Run, Juice, Run" sign, crossing off "Juice," writing in "Roman," and hopping a plane to Switzerland to stand amidst the picturesque mountains surrounding Polanski's chalet and show him you understand his plight.
But Roman Polanski doesn't want you to pity him—which is definitely what everyone was doing all this time. In fact, according to a statement he released this weekend, he wants to be treated just like anyone else.
From Movieline:
Throughout my seven months since September 26, 2009, the date of my arrest at Zurich Airport, where I had landed with a view to receiving a lifetime award for my work from the representative of the Swiss Minister of Culture, I have refrained from making any public statements and have requested my lawyers to confine their comments to a bare minimum. I wanted the legal authorities of Switzerland and the United States, as well as my lawyers, to do their work without any polemics on my part.