Nicolas Roeg Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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 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.”

“Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.”

“Fear has many faces.”

“Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.”

“Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.”

“Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.”

“How can you judge one film against another?”

“I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.”