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" Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

" Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. "

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

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

" Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

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

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

" Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "