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" 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

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Moment

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" Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My father was an extraordinary man. "

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" Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. "

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Remains

Mystical

" 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. "

" We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. "

" You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision. "

" When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. "

" I was always a bit arty-farty as a boy. 'Come on, Mr. Arty-Farty,' my sister used to say to me. "

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

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

" I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride. "

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" I like the probability of the impossible. "

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Impossible

Probability