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'Eureka' was very bad timing....

'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

You can't hide in life. We ar...

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

I came up the old-fashioned w...

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

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

Any change in form produces a...

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 42 quotes

People are mistaken to view c...

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.

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

Mirrors are the essence of mov...

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

Marketing is a very good thing...

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

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

The rules are learnt in order ...

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

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

I was very glad later when I w...

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.

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They think something's gone wr...

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.

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In marketing, the familiar is ...

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

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I've always thought there was ...

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

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My father was an extraordinary...

My father was an extraordinary man.

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

When a book is just a plot, yo...

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

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Youth is so exciting. It'll ta...

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

We all have our beliefs or our...

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

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Too many films today feel form...

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

Nicolas Roeg 42 quotes

We're all influenced by everyt...

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

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I've always felt that, althoug...

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 42 quotes

Oscars are won with two or thr...

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 42 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....