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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

And you poor creatures
who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

The resistance to [black-and-white] is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family ...