Karel Reisz

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.