Karel Reisz

Heroism in a bad cause.

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

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.