Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
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You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
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We're selective about sound, we tune out things, or maybe you overhear something - and that's an area that's as yet totally unexplored.
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I stayed at MGM for about two years, and in that time I became part of the camera crew and worked my way up to be a focus puller.
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So quite a lot of people who've come into cinema from the commercials world have had to learn the very fact of what cinematography is over again.
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Soon, just as people can now go to Rymans and buy paper to start writing a book, they'll be able to get stuff to start shooting a film.
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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 well.
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In marketing, the familiar is everything.
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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, 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.
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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
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You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
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My father was an extraordinary man.
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Mirrors are the essence of movies.
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When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
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Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.