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?' Nicolas Roeg More Quotes by Nicolas Roeg More Quotes From Nicolas Roeg My father was an extraordinary man. Nicolas Roeg extraordinary men father In life, we all learn from everyone. Nicolas Roeg inspire life In marketing, the familiar is everything. Nicolas Roeg familiar marketing Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. Nicolas Roeg painting children art 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 felt film term 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 struggle perfect beautiful Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. Nicolas Roeg bridges house years We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. Nicolas Roeg agnosticism belief I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well. Nicolas Roeg wells mirrors memories And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. Nicolas Roeg how thought think learning 'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. Nicolas Roeg story life-story love life Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well. Nicolas Roeg go women different men Fear has many faces. Nicolas Roeg many fear faces 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 down tall earth people 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 right science-fiction science way Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol! Nicolas Roeg oh absolute some been I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me. Nicolas Roeg boy say me sister I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned. Nicolas Roeg boy myself tea way Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. Nicolas Roeg me remains mysterious film
