Facts about Nicolas Roeg

Occup.	Director
From	England
Born	August 15, 1928
Age	97 years

Summary

Nicolas Roeg is a famous Director from England, he/she is 97 years old and still alive, born August 15, 1928.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative. Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Nicolas, under the main topic Movie.

Related authors: Jenny Agutter (Actress)

16 Famous quotes by 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

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

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"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs"

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

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

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"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"

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"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"

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

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

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"In life, we all learn from everyone"

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

"Fear has many faces"

Nicolas Roeg

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

Nicolas Roeg

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

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

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

Nicolas Roeg