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

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

" 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?' "

" Fear has many faces. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" How can you judge one film against another? "

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

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

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

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