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" I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size! "

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" Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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?' "

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

" Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" How can you judge one film against another? "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today. "

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

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "