"Some people are very lucky, and have the……" — Nicolas Roeg
"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 laugh is people who make plans."
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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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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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I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as…
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More Chance Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites…
— Ansel Adams
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be…
— Ernie Banks
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