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

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" 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. "

" 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?' "

" How can you judge one film against another? "

" You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it. "

" You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me. "

" Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. "

" When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are. "

" Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning. "

" Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time. "

" '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. "

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

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" 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. "

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

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

" 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. "

" And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. "

" When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.' "

" 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. "

" I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre. "

" We can't get our youth back. "

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

" I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present. "

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

" There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. "

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

" 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. "

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