Nicolas Roeg Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Nicolas Roeg:

We can't get our youth back.

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

Nicolas Roeg

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

Nicolas Roeg

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

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

Nicolas Roeg

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Nicolas Roeg

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

We can't get our youth back.

Nicolas Roeg

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

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

Nicolas Roeg

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

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

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

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

Nicolas Roeg

I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.

Nicolas Roeg

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

Fear has many faces.

Nicolas Roeg

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

Nicolas Roeg

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Nicolas Roeg

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

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

Nicolas Roeg

I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is.

Nicolas Roeg

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

My father was an extraordinary man.

Nicolas Roeg

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

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

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

Nicolas Roeg

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

Nicolas Roeg

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Nicolas Roeg

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

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Nicolas Roeg

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

Nicolas Roeg

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

I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me.

Nicolas Roeg

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

Nicolas Roeg

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