All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as… — 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 Image
Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge. — 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, really, when… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
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 Image
I don't study any films. I'll watch them, but I don't study anyone else. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
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 Image
My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it. — 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 is the… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve. — 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 of the… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
