English - Director | August 15, 1928 -
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
Nicolas Roeg
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Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
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I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
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I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
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You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
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People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
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Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
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I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.
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And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
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When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
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Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
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