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

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" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look. "

" 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. "

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

" We can't get our youth back. "

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

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

" 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. "

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

" Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end. "

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

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

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

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

" They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women. "

" We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room. "

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

" I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five. "

" The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. "

" There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really! "

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

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

" You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision. "

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

" Fear has many faces. "

" 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. "