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

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

" Fear has many faces. "

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

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

" 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. "

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

" How can you judge one film against another? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.' "

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

" 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. "

" Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. "

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

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

" 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?' "

" Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now. "

" '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. "

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

" I've been told my movies are difficult to market. "