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Top 25 Nicolas Roeg Quotes (2025 Update)

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “You make the movie through the cinematography – it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.”

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

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Movies are not scripts – movies are films; they’re not books, they’re not the theatre.”

2. “Movies are not scripts – movies are films; they’re not books, they’re not the theatre.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “In marketing, the familiar is everything.”

3. “In marketing, the familiar is everything.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “I’ve always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They’d start with a single premise and talk for hours – the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.”

4. “I’ve always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They’d start with a single premise and talk for hours – the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “In life, we all learn from everyone.”

5. “In life, we all learn from everyone.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.”

6. “Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Children’s finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn’t.”

7. “Children’s finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn’t.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting – 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.”

8. “The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting – 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “They think something’s gone wrong, but in Don’t Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It’s the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who’s investigating the two women.”

9. “They think something’s gone wrong, but in Don’t Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It’s the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who’s investigating the two women.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “My father was an extraordinary man.”

10. “My father was an extraordinary man.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I’ve never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.”

11. “Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I’ve never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don’t know them, then something is missing.”

12. “The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don’t know them, then something is missing.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “There was a village watercolour society and they’d come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.”

13. “There was a village watercolour society and they’d come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn’t control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.”

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

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “We’re all influenced by everything unless we’re locked in an empty room.”

15. “We’re all influenced by everything unless we’re locked in an empty room.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.”

16. “We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.”

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

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Mirrors are the essence of movies.”

18. “Mirrors are the essence of movies.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.”

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

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn’t in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.”

20. “I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn’t in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.”

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

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, ‘Why?’”

22. “When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, ‘Why?’”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Youth is so exciting. It’ll take over. I don’t want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.”

23. “Youth is so exciting. It’ll take over. I don’t want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it’s really beautifully photographed, you don’t really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.”

24. “Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it’s really beautifully photographed, you don’t really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “Movies which set out to be ‘commercial’ usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.”

25. “Movies which set out to be ‘commercial’ usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg Quote: “I’ve always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.”

27. “I’ve always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.”

— Nicolas Roeg

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