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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

" 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. "

" How can you judge one film against another? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" '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. "

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

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

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

" 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?' "

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