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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

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

" Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Fear has many faces. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything. "

" 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 think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre. "

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

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

" How can you judge one film against another? "

" We can't get our youth back. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "