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.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

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

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

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.