Director

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

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

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

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.

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.

I've been told my movies are difficult to market.

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.

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

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

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.

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

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

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 generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

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

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.