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

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familia….

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..

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 ….

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

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 p….

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

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

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

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates..

In life, we all learn from everyone..

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are grea….

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 a….

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

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 under….

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. ….

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 ….

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he ….

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing..

Mirrors are the essence of movies..