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

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" Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

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

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

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

" Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How can you judge one film against another? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "