In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

It's Inevitable That You Will Die, So The Only Question Is When. The Great Thrillers Are The Moments That Play And Tease With The Question, "when Will It Be?"

Are We Simply Waving Farewell To The Days When Some Of The Most Interesting Thinking In Europe And America Came To Us From Our Fiction Film-makers? Bbc2, Which Once Introduced And Showed Great Films, Now Shows None.

Style Is The Art Of Getting Yourself Out Of The Way, Not Putting Yourself In It.

Never Take Advice From Anyone With No Investment In The Outcome.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.