English - Director | August 15, 1928 -
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
Nicolas Roeg
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Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
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A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
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My father was an extraordinary man.
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I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.
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I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
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We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
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I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.
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We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.
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Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.
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How can you judge one film against another?
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'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.
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