Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
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.
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!
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.
cinema english-director fact learn people quite
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.
buy english-director paper people shooting start stuff
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.
people want youth
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.
ideas laughing people
Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.
department involved scripts
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
life realized spent
I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.
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.
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.'