In Their Words — Sunday, May 26, 2013

Nicolas Roeg
Making The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

I can’t think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn’t in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look. It was just lucky in a way that I didn’t go to film school and just learned all this on the floor.

—Nicholas Roeg