Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
books fairy stories telling
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'
I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.
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.
How can you judge one film against another?
almost separate
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
area english-director maybe overhear selective totally tune
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.
marketing tools good-things
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
mistake quality looks
Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.
empty-rooms rooms empty
We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
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.
larger life watched
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
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.