Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.
I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.
women
I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.
bad early good man reagan richest
'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.
formed studios
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.
I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.
How can you judge one film against another?
page reality words
Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
age critics daring hold negative opinion positive reach understand valuable
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
films generally
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
came tea
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
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.
almost separate
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
larger life watched
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.