Author: Nicolas Roeg

Quotes

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.

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

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

- Nicolas Roeg

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

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

- Nicolas Roeg

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

- Nicolas Roeg

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

- Nicolas Roeg

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.

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

Fear has many faces.

Fear has many faces.

- Nicolas Roeg

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

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

- Nicolas Roeg

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

- Nicolas Roeg

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