Roger Deakins

I don't really like watching 3-D.

— Roger Deakins

Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement…

— Roger Deakins

Your whole life informs your eye.

— Roger Deakins

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

— Roger Deakins

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer,…

— Roger Deakins

I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular…

— Roger Deakins

I don't study any films. I'll watch them, but I don't study anyone else.

— Roger Deakins

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to…

— Roger Deakins

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

— Roger Deakins

Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that…

— Roger Deakins

What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.

— Roger Deakins

I do think observing is important in learning.

— Roger Deakins

I think that lens flares can work really well under certain circumstances. Personally, I am trying to get rid of them most…

— Roger Deakins

Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a…

— Roger Deakins

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most…

— Roger Deakins

I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

— Roger Deakins

There's so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don't get the recognition.

— Roger Deakins

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all…

— Roger Deakins

There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do…

— Roger Deakins

I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see…

— Roger Deakins

When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge…

— Roger Deakins

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all…

— Roger Deakins

I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for…

— Roger Deakins

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room…

— Roger Deakins

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