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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes."

"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
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"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."

"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."

"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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