Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSCis an English film director and cinematographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 August 1928
clear mainly
I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is.
socrates
When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
remains
Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
everybody love obsessive physical respond university
I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.
directions men needs overlap women
Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.
except rarely reveal strange tidy trying
Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.
memories mirrors wells
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
marketing familiar
In marketing, the familiar is everything.
beautiful struggle perfect
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.
years bridges house
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
simple ideas sound
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
father men extraordinary
My father was an extraordinary man.
mirrors essence
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
book fighting men
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?'