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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

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room. — 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

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are. — Nicolas Roeg

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. — Nicolas Roeg

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. — 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

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. — Nicolas Roeg

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. — Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol! — Nicolas Roeg

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! — Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision. — Nicolas Roeg

Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be. — Nicolas Roeg

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride. — 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

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult. — 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

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. — 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

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning. — Nicolas Roeg

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness. — 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

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well. — Nicolas Roeg

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. — 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

I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is. — Nicolas Roeg

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. — Nicolas Roeg