"It was the filmmaking, the fantasy, the fact that it was a fantasy and it had a few frightening, sort of bizarre things in it. It was everything. It was really a movie for me, and it gave me an early appreciation for the power of visual media, the fact that you could experiment with it. He was doing all his tricks in-camera, and they were sort of obvious. That made me feel that, gee, maybe I could figure this medium out. It was transparent, but it worked."
—George A. Romero, speaking of the British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their 1951 movie The Tales Of Hoffman, for Robert K. Elder's book The Film That Changed My Life (2011, Chicago Review Press)
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