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Fear has many faces.
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
My father was an extraordinary man.
In life, we all learn from everyone.
In marketing, the familiar is everything.
I like the probability of the impossible.
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
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 remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.
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.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
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?'
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 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 thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
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.
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've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
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.
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.