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" 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?' "

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" I like the probability of the impossible. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. "

" 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. "

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women. "

" We can't get our youth back. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" Fear has many faces. "

" 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. "

" 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. "