Nicolas Roeg Quotes

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• But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
• Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
• In life, we all learn from everyone.
• Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
• The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
• In marketing, the familiar is everything.
• Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
• 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 God…
• The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are…
• There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle…
• 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.
• I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
• My father was an extraordinary man.
• Mirrors are the essence of movies.
• 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,…
• 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…
• We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
• Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
• We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

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