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" A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity. "
Way
Movies
Happy
" And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. "
Think
Thought
Learning
" Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. "
Marketing
Because
Change
" Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece. "
Things
Truth
Got
" But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. "
Everything
Now
Studio
" Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. "
Movies
Children
Came
" Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both. "
Opinion
Age
Positive
" Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more. "
Yourself
Hair
Look
" 'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step. "
Be Happy
Happy
Man
" Fear has many faces. "
Fear
Faces
Many
" Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be. "
Film
Words
Page
" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "
Me
Remains
Mystical
" Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. "
Emotional
Emotion
Because
" How can you judge one film against another? "
Another
Film
You
" I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. "
Way
Boy
Tea
" I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride. "
Back
Any
Pride
" I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult. "
Old
Find
Difficult
" I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. "
Hate
Life
Birth
" I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size! "
Tall
Earth
People
" I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is. "
Day
Week
Routine
" I like the probability of the impossible. "
Like
Impossible
Probability
" I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers. "
General
Film
Show
" I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them. "
Love
See
Things
" I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down. "
Love
Thought
Timing
" In life, we all learn from everyone. "
Life
Learn
Everyone
" I realized I've spent all my life creating a past. "
My Life
Realized
Creating
" I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre. "
Think
Idea
I Think
" I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. "
Shaped
Think
Artists
" I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending. "
Always
Tradition
Talk
" I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated. "
Same
Much
Film
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