Nicolas Roeg Quotes

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I find myself fascinating.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.