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.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!