Nicolas Roeg Quotes

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

  Nicolas Roeg

  Broken Heart, Missing You, Order

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

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• Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Today, Strange, Film

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• Mirrors are the essence of movies.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Mirrors, Essence

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• 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, People, Laughing

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

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• What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

  Nicolas Roeg

  People, Laughing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Empty Rooms, Rooms, Empty

  "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

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• In life, we all learn from everyone.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Life, Inspire

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

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• 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

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

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• 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

  "Q&A with Puffball director Nicolas Roeg". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2008.

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• Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Movie, Book, Theatre

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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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• 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, Fear Of Change, Invention

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

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• 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

  "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

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• 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

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

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• 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

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

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• Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it's not the theatre, it's not done over again. It's done in bits and pieces. Things are happening which you can't get again. I forbid anyone to say "Cut", the soundman, the operator, or whatever.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Book, Cutting, Discipline

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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

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• 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

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

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• 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.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Thinking, Admire

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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

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

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• 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, Felt

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• In marketing, the familiar is everything.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Marketing, Familiar

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

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

  Nicolas Roeg

  Art, Children, Painting

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2005.

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• 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

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

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