Nicolas Roeg Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Nicolas Roeg on Wise Famous Quotes.
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.
When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.