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I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

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Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

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When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

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Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

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A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

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People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

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When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

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My father was an extraordinary man.

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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?'

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I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: August 15th, 1928

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