Quotes by Nicolas Roeg - Page 2

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!
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Down To Earth
Extraterrestrial
Imagine
Size
Alien
People Earth Down
Seem
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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 / Film Director
Death
Accelerate
Deals
Familiar
Fear Of Change
Form
Invention
Marketing
Produces
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Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Quality
Looks
Mistake
Moments
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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 Director
Felt
Film
Term
Underestimated
Admired
Time Always Film
Greatly
Revered
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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 / Film Director
Acting
Differences
Reacting
Theatre
Screen
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A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Longevity
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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 / Film Director
Oscars
Three
Two
Astounding
Beautifully
Notice
Photographed
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I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Forty
Thirty
Forty Years
Quicker
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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 / Film Director
Ideas
Laughing
People
Plans
Heads
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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 / Film Director
Admire
Thinking
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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.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Obsession
Obsessive
Timing
Respond
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I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Birth
Life Hate People
Real Name
Tony
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When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Cinema
No Idea
Structure
Extra
Grant
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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 / Film Director
Glad
Hands
Looks
Scene
Cinematographer
Directing
Discuss
Hoping
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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 / Film Director
Instance
Investigating
Mistake
Scene
Thinking
Two
Donald
Goes
Policeman
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'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.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Greed
Timing
Good Man World
Be Happy
Eureka
Richest
Richest Man
Thatcher
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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 / Film Director
Crowds
Never Ending
Notion
Sat
Stories
Tradition
Admired
Ever-Changing
Gathered
Market
Premise
Storytellers
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Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Permission
Resonance
Actual
Cuts
Whoever
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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 / Film Director
Angle
Beautiful
Paint
Perfect
Struggle
Village
Window
Watched
Perfect Moment
Tremendously
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When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Sister
Blooming
Fairy
Always Done World
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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.
Nicolas Roeg / Film Director
Tidy
Mirror Look Yourself
Ponder
Rarely
Reveal
Shakespeare
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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 / Film Director
Book
Cutting
Discipline
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