Nicolas Roeg quotes
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“The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.”
-- Nicolas RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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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 RoegSource : "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 RoegSource : "Q&A with Puffball director Nicolas Roeg". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2008.
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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 RoegSource : "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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“We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.”
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“Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.”
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“We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.”
-- Nicolas RoegSource : "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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“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.”
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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.”
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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 RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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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 RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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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.”
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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 RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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“But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.”
-- Nicolas RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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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 RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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“In life, we all learn from everyone.”
-- Nicolas RoegSource : Source: www.theguardian.com
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“Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.”
-- Nicolas RoegSource : Source: www.theguardian.com
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“Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.”
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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 RoegSource : Source: www.theguardian.com
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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 RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 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.”
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“Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.”
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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 RoegSource : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
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