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" My father was an extraordinary man. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

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

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

" And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. "

" Fear has many faces. "

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

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

" Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol! "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" We can't get our youth back. "

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

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" 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. "