About Nicolas Roeg: Nicolas Jack Roeg is an English film director and cinematographer.
The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
'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.
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
In life, we all learn from everyone.
I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.
There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.
'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.
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.
You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
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.
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
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.
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?'
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.
Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.
