You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest… — 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
