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" 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. "

Nicolas Roeg

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

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" I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all. "

Nicolas Roeg

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Any cuts that are done to any film, they're usually things that have some personal resonance for whoever has got permission to cut it and feels they should. But it has very little to do with the actual weight, the truth, of the piece. "

" I like the probability of the impossible. "

Nicolas Roeg

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Probability

" Fear has many faces. "