How can you judge one film against another?
From Nicolas Roeg
'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.
There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.
I've been told my movies are difficult to market.
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is.
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
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