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

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" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fear has many faces. "

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

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

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