"I remember him distinctly, vividly, telling me to shoot," one told me.
Shockingly, he has never had to clear much shelf-space for prizes, but when he received an honorary Bafta in 2009, he looked distinctly nonplussed, telling the audience: "I'm not dead yet".
I do distinctly remember telling my girlfriend that it went well.
I distinctly remember telling a friend at one point, "I just can't wait to be bored".
Mr. Apted's first film here, "Coal Miner's Daughter" (a musical adaptation of it is Broadway bound), was one of several he's done that tell distinctly American stories.
My eldest, Rowan, is distinctly unimpressed when I tell him I am going to turn him into a gardener.
The images from Swedish photographer David Magnusson's new book, Purity, are beautiful, disturbing and tell a distinctly American story – a story wherein a girl's virginity is held up as a moral ideal above all else, a story in which the most important characteristic of a young woman is whether or not she is sexually active.
Together, the films tell the distinctly African American stories.
One page features posters of films that were shot there, including "Ray," "Love and Basketball," "What's Love Got to Do With It," and "Something New". Together, the films tell the distinctly African American stories.
"I sensed he was distinctly alarmed," Wood told me.
