Karel Reisz Quotes

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.

Minority views expressed in films simply don’t sell tickets.

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

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.

Heroism in a bad cause.