Top 74 Quotes by Nicolas Roeg

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

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.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

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 you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

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.