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.

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

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.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.