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" Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. "

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" 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. "

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

" 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. "

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

" I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We can't get our youth back. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "