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

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" Fear has many faces. "

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

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

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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

" '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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 like the probability of the impossible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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