Nicolas Roeg

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.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.