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

"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 and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously."

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

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

"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."

"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 to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women."

"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."

"But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now."
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