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

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" 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. "

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

" Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. "

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

" I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well. "

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

" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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?' "

" When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. "

" 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. "