34 Nicolas Roeg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nicolas Roeg

English Director

Born: Aug 15, 1928

Always Any Film Life Think You

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I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult. Nicolas Roeg

Try Old Difficult Films Find About Generally Talking Avoid

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five. Nicolas Roeg

Future Thirty Changes Say Must Always Era Years Lot Quicker Five Than Loved Used Forty Forty Years Lucky Now Last

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past. Nicolas Roeg

Life My Life Past Spent All My Life Realized Creating

Mirrors are the essence of movies. Nicolas Roeg

Mirrors Essence Movies

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. Nicolas Roeg

Life Hate People Birth Say About Given He Name Talk Became Real His Real Name Person Just Lived Tony

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. Nicolas Roeg

Big Think Shaped Put Studios Contract Artists Formed

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning. Nicolas Roeg

Nature Beginning Starts Never Repeats Itself

We can't get our youth back. Nicolas Roeg

Youth Back Our Get

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision. Nicolas Roeg

Life You Vision Hide Some Being Larger Watched

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers. Nicolas Roeg

Women General Like Them Show Film

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down. Nicolas Roeg

Love Thought Made Timing Down Everybody Everyone Respond Bad Must Would Physical About Touch Obsession Obsessive Film University

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are. Nicolas Roeg

Work You Think Admire Someone Amazed Who

I like the probability of the impossible. Nicolas Roeg

Impossible Like Probability

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well. Nicolas Roeg

Needs Women Men Directions Well Overlap Go Different Different Directions Desires

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. Nicolas Roeg

Everything Marketing Studio Reaching Familiar Controlled Now

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. Nicolas Roeg

Came Arts Children Movies

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

Cinematographer Later Would Hoping Directing Scene Could Glad He Know Look Well How Doing Very Discuss Hands

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

Time Great Theatre About Between Reacting Difference Screen Acting Actor

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. Nicolas Roeg

Old Had Like House Years Years Ago Pond Victorian Bridge Downs

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol! Nicolas Roeg

Films Some Absolute Attacked Been Oh

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. Nicolas Roeg

Myself Tea Cinematographer Way Boy Came Up Old-Fashioned Old-Fashioned Way

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. Nicolas Roeg

Me Mysterious Remains Mystical Film

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