I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession.… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure,… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star,… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share
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 Copy Share
