Nicolas Roeg Quotes

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.

Children's Finger-painting Came Under The Arts, But Movies Didn't.

My Father Was An Extraordinary Man.

But In Marketing, The Familiar Is Everything, And That Is Controlled By The Studio. That Is Reaching Its Apogee Now.

We All Have Our Beliefs Or Our Agnosticism.

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.

Years Ago I Had A House In Sussex, It Was Like Arcadia, With An Old Victorian Bridge, A Pond And The Downs.

In Marketing, The Familiar Is Everything.

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.

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.

Marketing Is A Very Good Thing, But It Shouldn't Control Everything. It Should Be The Tool, Not That Which Dictates.

In Life, We All Learn From Everyone. But If You Like And Admire Someone Tremendously, Perhaps Because They Think The Way You Do, Or Like The Way You Think, Then Inevitably You Do.