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

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" I like the probability of the impossible. "

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" '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. "

" When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are. "

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

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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

" You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?' "

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

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "