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

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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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" 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?' "

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

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