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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. "

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" Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well. "

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" 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. "

" When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema. "

" I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers. "

" Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. "

" I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride. "

" I realized I've spent all my life creating a past. "

" Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. "

" When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?' "

" Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. "

" Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. "

" I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

" I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. "

" 'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. "

" Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. "

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" I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. "

" I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything. "

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" People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other. "

" I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc. "

" But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. "

" Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be. "

" Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it. "

" I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well. "

" How can you judge one film against another? "