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

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Is the cinema more important than life?

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