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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look. "

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

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

" We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Fear has many faces. "

" I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. "

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

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

" 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! "

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

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

" I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "