Roman Polanski: I Can Remain Silent No Longer

Director Roman Polanski is breaking his silence regarding a 33-year-old sex case where the U.S. is demanding his extradition from Switzerland.

"I have had my share of dramas and joys, as we all have, and I am not going to try to ask you to pity my lot in life," he wrote to an online magazine run by his supporter French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, the Associated Press reports. "I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else."

Polanski continues, "I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago."