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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. "

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

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

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

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

" 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. "

" I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step. "

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