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" Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

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

" Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. "

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

" We can't get our youth back. "

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

" 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. "

" Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "