Nicolas Roeg Quotes
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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
— Nicolas Roeg
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
— Nicolas Roeg
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
— Nicolas Roeg
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
— Nicolas Roeg
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
— Nicolas Roeg
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
— Nicolas Roeg
You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.
— Nicolas Roeg
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.
— Nicolas Roeg
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
— Nicolas Roeg
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
— Nicolas Roeg
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
— Nicolas Roeg
In life, we all learn from everyone.
— Nicolas Roeg
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
— Nicolas Roeg
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
— Nicolas Roeg
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.
— Nicolas Roeg
In marketing, the familiar is everything.
— Nicolas Roeg
We can't get our youth back.
— Nicolas Roeg
I've been told my movies are difficult to market.
— Nicolas Roeg
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
— Nicolas Roeg
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.
— Nicolas Roeg
I like the probability of the impossible.
— Nicolas Roeg
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.'
— Nicolas Roeg
How can you judge one film against another?
— Nicolas Roeg
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
— Nicolas Roeg
I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.
— Nicolas Roeg
I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.
— Nicolas Roeg
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
— Nicolas Roeg
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
— Nicolas Roeg
There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.
— Nicolas Roeg
'Puffball' is a love story ... no, it's a life story.
— Nicolas Roeg
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
— Nicolas Roeg
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
— Nicolas Roeg
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?'
— Nicolas Roeg
Fear has many faces.
— Nicolas Roeg
I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.
— Nicolas Roeg
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.
— Nicolas Roeg
My father was an extraordinary man.
— Nicolas Roeg
Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
— Nicolas Roeg
I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.
— Nicolas Roeg
