About Nicolas Roeg: Nicolas Jack Roeg is an English film director and cinematographer.
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
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!
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
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.
When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
How can you judge one film against another?
Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.
I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is.
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
