Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
films
Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!
nature starts
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
enhance moved sort upwards
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
difficult movies
I've been told my movies are difficult to market.
draw films future noticed rarely sort
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.
I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.
liked
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
bad early good man reagan richest
'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.
formed studios
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.
I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.
How can you judge one film against another?
page reality words
Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
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Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.