Nicolas Roeg Quotes

"I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look."
- Nicolas Roeg

"You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Idea)

"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Old, Years)

"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."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Women, Mistake, Now, Wrong)

"But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Marketing, Now)

"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."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Change, Death, Fear, Deals, Invention, Marketing)

"The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Order, Rules)

"Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Movies, Children)

"Fear has many faces."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Fear, Faces)

"In life, we all learn from everyone."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Life)

"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Control, Marketing)

"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."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: God, People, Idea, Chance)

"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."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Time, Acting, Actors, Difference, Theatre)

"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Movies, Books, Theatre)

"And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Thought, Learning)