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Nicolas Roeg

"Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."

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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

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"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."

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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

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"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

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Amber Hurdle

"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."

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"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."

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"I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant."

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"But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now."
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