I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer,… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I think that lens flares can work really well under certain circumstances. Personally, I am trying to get rid of them most… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge. — Roger Deakins Copy Share
I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular script, and… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college,… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it. — Roger Deakins Copy Share
Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
I think that lens flares can work really well under certain circumstances. Personally, I am trying to get rid of them most of the… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor… — Roger Deakins Copy Share
