Nicolas Roeg Quotes
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
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?'
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.
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.
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.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
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.
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
