"All I’ve ever wanted to do is take……" — Roger Deakins
"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 individuals."
—
Roger Deakins
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
20 Quotes by Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins has 20 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on…
-
To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all…
-
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh,…
-
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…
-
Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything,…
-
The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is…
-
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…
-
Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good…
-
I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to…
-
You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in…
See all 20 quotes by Roger Deakins »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »