Top 74 Quotes by Nicolas Roeg

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

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

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

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

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.

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.