Nicolas Roeg's Quotes
Born: 1928-08-15
Profession: Director
Nation: English
Biography of Nicolas Roeg
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
Tags: Idea, Movie, SimpleBut in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
Tags: Familiar, Marketing, StudioMarketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
Tags: Control, Good, MarketingAnd later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
Tags: Become, Learning, ThoughtMovies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Tags: Books, Movies, TheatreThe rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
Tags: Broken, Order, RulesYears ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Tags: Bridge, House, OldAny change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
Tags: Change, Death, FearI 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.
Tags: Hands, Hoping, LaterSome 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.
Tags: Chance, God, LaughThe 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.
Tags: Acting, Great, TimeThere 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.
Tags: Beautiful, God, SocietyThey 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.
Tags: Mistake, Women, Wrong