Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
actual cuts feels permission resonance truth whoever
Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece.
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?'
believe horror life miss whether
There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.
films
Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!
enhance moved sort upwards
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
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.