You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
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've been told my movies are difficult to market.
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
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.
'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.
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.
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
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.
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 was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.
You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
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.
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'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.
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.
There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.
