<p>The 76-year-old director was arrested in Zurich on a three-decade-old US warrant issued as he escaped the country after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.<br />He is currently held being under house arrest in Switzerland.<br /><br />In a letter written to French philosopher and writer, Bernard-Henri Levy which has been posted on the Internet newspaper 'The Huffington Post', Polanski states, "I have been overwhelmed by the number of messages of support and sympathy I have received in Winterthur prison, and that I continue to receive here, in my chalet in Gstaad, where I am spending the holidays with my wife and my children."<br /><br />"These messages have come from my neighbors, from people all over Switzerland, and from beyond Switzerland -- from across the world. I would like every one of them to know how heartening it is, when one is locked up in a cell, to hear this murmur of human voices and of solidarity in the morning mail," Polanski, who won an Oscar his 2002 film The Pianist, said.<br />"In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope, and they continue to be so in my current situation," Polanski said in the letter. <br /></p>
<p>The 76-year-old director was arrested in Zurich on a three-decade-old US warrant issued as he escaped the country after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.<br />He is currently held being under house arrest in Switzerland.<br /><br />In a letter written to French philosopher and writer, Bernard-Henri Levy which has been posted on the Internet newspaper 'The Huffington Post', Polanski states, "I have been overwhelmed by the number of messages of support and sympathy I have received in Winterthur prison, and that I continue to receive here, in my chalet in Gstaad, where I am spending the holidays with my wife and my children."<br /><br />"These messages have come from my neighbors, from people all over Switzerland, and from beyond Switzerland -- from across the world. I would like every one of them to know how heartening it is, when one is locked up in a cell, to hear this murmur of human voices and of solidarity in the morning mail," Polanski, who won an Oscar his 2002 film The Pianist, said.<br />"In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope, and they continue to be so in my current situation," Polanski said in the letter. <br /></p>
