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Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSC (/ˈroʊɡ/; born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and former cinematographer. He is best known for directing the films Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bad Timing and The Witches.

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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?'

Book, Fighting, Know, Love, Men

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.

People, Want, Youth, Away, Swept

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

Good Things, Marketing, Thing, Tool, Tools

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

Simple, Ideas, Sound, Cinematography, Revelation, Like

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.

Change, Death, Fear Of Change, Invention, Marketing

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

Years, Bridges, House, Old, Like

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Everyone, Inspire, Learn, Life

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

Mirrors, Essence, Movies

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

Empty Rooms, Rooms, Empty, Everything, Locked

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

Everything, Familiar, Marketing

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.

Hands, Looks, Scene, Hoping, Directing

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Agnosticism, Belief, Beliefs

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.

Acting, Actors, Differences, Reactors, Screen, Theatre

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

Familiar, Film, Strange, Today

My father was an extraordinary man.

Extraordinary, Father, Man, Men

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

Thinking, Admire, Learn, Like, Inevitably

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

Apogee, Familiar, Marketing, Reaching, Studio

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it's not the theatre, it's not done over again. It's done in bits and pieces. Things are happening which you can't get again. I forbid anyone to say "Cut", the soundman, the operator, or whatever.

Beauty, Book, Cutting, Discipline, Operator, Things

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

Memories, Mirrors, Wells, Connected, Magical

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.

Mistake, Thinking, Two, Look, Investigating

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