Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
came tea
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
films generally
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
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.
page reality words
Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
How can you judge one film against another?
I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.
formed studios
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.
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.
women
I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.
liked
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.
I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.
draw films future noticed rarely sort
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
difficult movies
I've been told my movies are difficult to market.