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?'
formed studios
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.
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.
today strange film
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
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.
marketing reaching familiar
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
empty-rooms rooms empty
We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
film term felt
I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
stories crowds tradition
I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.
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.
marketing familiar
In marketing, the familiar is everything.
differences theatre acting
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
marketing invention fear-of-change
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.