Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Nicolas Roeg - Page 2

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

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.

We can't get our youth back.

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it's not the theatre, it's not done over again. It's done in bits and pieces. Things are happening which you can't get again. I forbid anyone to say "Cut", the soundman, the operator, or whatever.