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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

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

" 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?' "

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

" We can't get our youth back. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "