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

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" '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. "

" 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. "

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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

" I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending. "

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