Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
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.
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.
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
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.
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
We can't get our youth back.
I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.
Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.
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.
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
I like the probability of the impossible.
