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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" 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! "

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

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

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

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

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

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

" How can you judge one film against another? "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

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

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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

" '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. "

" Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. "

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

" I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. "

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

" 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. "