Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
hands looks scene
I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.
mistake thinking two
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 where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
mirrors essence
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
marketing familiar
In marketing, the familiar is everything.
ideas laughing people
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.
differences theatre acting
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
beautiful struggle perfect
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 this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.
years bridges house
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
marketing invention fear-of-change
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.
father men extraordinary
My father was an extraordinary man.
memories mirrors wells
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
larger life watched
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
almost separate
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
curious innocence joy time tony work
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.