Roger Deakins Quotes

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• When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof,…
• To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And…
• There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that…
• I am not a fan of having too much gear.
• I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however it's done, is…
• Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most…
• The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in…
• Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
• 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 nostalgic…
• Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned…
• I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.
• 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…
• 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…
• Your whole life informs your eye.
• If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do
• Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and…
• I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things…
• I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp…
• I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I…
• I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

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