Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
life realized spent
I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.
given life lived name people talk tony
I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.
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.
life love
'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.
larger life watched
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
life
In life, we all learn from everyone.
ingrained mistaken people sort ways
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
department involved scripts
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
love yardstick
I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.
came people quite seem
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
fear full hope lives
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
mirrors movies
I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
alive movies tony
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
socrates
When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'