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" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

" 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 can't get our youth back. "

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

" The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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

" Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. "

" But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" 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. "

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

" Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "