Karel Reisz

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

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

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.