I've Always Admired The Tradition Of Storytellers

I Was Very Glad Later When I Was Directing That I Wasn't In The Hands Of A Cinematographer And Hoping That He Would Do It Well. I Would Know What He Was Doing, And We Could Discuss How That Scene Would Look.

The Rules Are Learnt In Order To Be Broken, But If You Don't Know Them, Then Something Is Missing.

Movies Are Not Scripts - Movies Are Films; They're Not Books, They're Not The Theatre. It's A Completely Different Discipline, It Exists On Its Own. I Would Say That The Beauty Of It Is It's Not The Theatre, It's Not Done Over Again. It's Done In Bits And Pieces. Things Are Happening Which You Can't Get Again. I Forbid Anyone To Say "cut", The Soundman, The Operator, Or Whatever.

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?'

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.