Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
films generally
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
came tea
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
curious innocence joy time tony work
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
almost separate
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
larger life watched
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
ingrained mistaken people sort ways
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
department involved scripts
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
life realized spent
I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.
love yardstick
I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.
You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.
came people quite seem
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
fear full hope lives
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
mirrors movies
I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
alive movies tony
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.