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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

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

" 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 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?' "

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

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

" How can you judge one film against another? "

" 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. "

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

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

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

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

" Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece. "

" Fear has many faces. "

" 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. "

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