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" You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it. "
Nicolas Roeg
Yourself
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Obsession
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Mirrors are the essence of movies. "
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" Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today. "
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" When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. "
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" But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. "
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" Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now. "
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" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "
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Remains
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" Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. "
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" I've been told my movies are difficult to market. "
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" 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. "
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" We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room. "
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" I realized I've spent all my life creating a past. "
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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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" In life, we all learn from everyone. "
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" I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers. "
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" I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult. "
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" 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! "
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" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "
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" 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. "
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