Nicolas Roeg Quotes

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

I'm so passionate and love the craft of movies and watch them over and over.

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like 'Heathers.'

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.

Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads.