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" 'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. "

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

" '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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

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

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

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today. "

" 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. "

" I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is. "