Nicolas Roeg Quotes

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old days.' But still, I love to look back.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.

I dwell in the past.

I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

I pop in highlight films from high school once in a while because those days were special.

I wasn't always a willing passer.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

I don't get too much enjoyment out of sitting around the campfire and looking at old photos. That's just not me. I don't get the thrill of doing that. So, I don't sit around listening to my old records.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

No, I don't want to coach. I don't want to coach.

A lot of people don't want to get bad news.

I don't want to have to fight Urijah. It's not something I want to do.

When I look back at the Nineties, I realise there wasn't very much TV I wanted to do.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.