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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Marketing

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Change

" In life, we all learn from everyone. "

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more. "

" We can't get our youth back. "

" 'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story. "

" I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre. "

" I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. "

" Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. "

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

" The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. "

" I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers. "

" Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. "

Nicolas Roeg

Memory

Movies

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

" I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. "

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

" 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?' "

" I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present. "

" 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. "

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

" I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them. "

" How can you judge one film against another? "

" There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today. "

Nicolas Roeg

Believe

Horror

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

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