The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. Nicolas Roeg More Quotes by Nicolas Roeg More Quotes From Nicolas Roeg My father was an extraordinary man. Nicolas Roeg extraordinarymenfather In life, we all learn from everyone. Nicolas Roeg inspirelife In marketing, the familiar is everything. Nicolas Roeg familiarmarketing Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. Nicolas Roeg paintingchildrenart 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 feltfilmterm 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 struggleperfectbeautiful Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. Nicolas Roeg bridgeshouseyears We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. Nicolas Roeg agnosticismbelief I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well. Nicolas Roeg wellsmirrorsmemories And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. Nicolas Roeg howthoughtthinklearning 'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. Nicolas Roeg storylife-storylovelife Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well. Nicolas Roeg gowomendifferentmen Fear has many faces. Nicolas Roeg manyfearfaces I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size! Nicolas Roeg downtallearthpeople There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really! Nicolas Roeg rightscience-fictionscienceway Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol! Nicolas Roeg ohabsolutesomebeen I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me. Nicolas Roeg boysaymesister I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. Nicolas Roeg boymyselfteaway Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. Nicolas Roeg meremainsmysteriousfilm
