"Oscars are won with two or three shots……" — 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 astounding moment emphasizes it."
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43 Quotes by Nicolas Roeg
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But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
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Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because…
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In life, we all learn from everyone.
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Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
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In marketing, the familiar is everything.
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Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
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Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea…
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The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the…
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There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window,…
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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and…
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You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge…
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
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There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is…
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
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It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people…
— John Cleese
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for…
— James A. Baldwin
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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended…
— Martin Luther
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Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
— William Hurt
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
— Ben Okri
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while…
— Adyashanti
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