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" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' "

" Fear has many faces. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all. "

" 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. "

" The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors. "

" 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. "

" Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now. "

" 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. "

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