"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."

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Source : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

Nicolas Roeg

#Hands Quotes #Looks Quotes #Scene Quotes

“I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.”
“When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.”
“I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.”
“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”
“Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.”

Source : "Do You Want to Be Just Average?" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. June 9, 2010.
“You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
“St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.”
“Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.”

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