Nicolas Roeg

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— Nicolas Roeg

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

— 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

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

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier,…

— 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,…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— 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

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star,…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great…

— Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the…

— Nicolas Roeg

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start…

— Nicolas Roeg

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

— Nicolas Roeg

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

— Nicolas Roeg

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

— 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…

— Nicolas Roeg

You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.

— 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…

— 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…

— Nicolas Roeg

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to…

— 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 women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not…

— Nicolas Roeg

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— Nicolas Roeg

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

— Nicolas Roeg

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I…

— 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

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— 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…

— 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

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