Nicolas Roeg

'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about…

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

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— Nicolas Roeg

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— 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

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

— Nicolas Roeg

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

— 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

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

— 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

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

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

— Nicolas Roeg

How can you judge one film against another?

— 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

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

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

— Nicolas Roeg

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

— Nicolas Roeg

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

— 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