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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

I don't like to get in front of people.