My Father Was An Extraordinary Man.

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.

Movies Which Set Out To Be 'commercial' Usually Have An Artificial Look About Them-a Certain Waxlike Quality. They Allow For No Failure, No Moment Of Mistake.

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.

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.

Mirrors Are The Essence Of Movies.