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

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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. "

" 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. "

" Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. "

" Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be. "

" 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 came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. "

" 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. "