Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

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

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

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

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

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

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

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?'

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Every season has a reason

One major factor that makes most achievers to fail is their ability to know where they are going and becoming unaware of what they will have to do when they get there!

Always be grateful with the small things because they are the beginning of bigger and better things to come.

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.