Nicolas Roeg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Broken Heart #Order #Missing
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Marketing #Tools #Good Things
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Mirrors #Essence
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Book #Fighting #Men
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.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#People #Want #Youth
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Belief #Agnosticism
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Today #Strange #Film
We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Rooms #Empty
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.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Film #Term #Underestimated
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.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Stories #Crowds #Tradition
Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Two #Three #Oscars
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

#Hands #Looks #Scene
My father was an extraordinary man.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Father #Men #Extraordinary
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Memories #Mirrors #Wells
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
-- Nicolas Roeg

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

#Marketing #Reaching #Familiar
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

#Marketing #Invention #Fear Of Change
In life, we all learn from everyone.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Life
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Movie #Book #Theatre
In marketing, the familiar is everything.
-- Nicolas Roeg

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

#Art #Children #Painting
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

#Ideas #Laughing #People
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

#Differences #Theatre #Acting
There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.
-- Nicolas Roeg

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

#Years #Bridges #House
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

#Mistake #Thinking #Two

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