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Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

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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.

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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

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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.

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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.

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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

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I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

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There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

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Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

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I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: August 15th, 1928

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