Nicolas Roeg Quotes & Sayings

“Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.”

“You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.”

“And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.”

“Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.”

“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!”

“Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.”

“You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.”