"I like simplicity. I like using natural sources.……" — Roger Deakins
"I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp."
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20 Quotes by Roger Deakins
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When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on…
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To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all…
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There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh,…
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I am not a fan of having too much gear.
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I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the…
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Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything,…
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The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is…
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Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
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Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic…
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Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good…
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I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to…
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All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express…
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty…
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its…
— J. G. Ballard
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
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My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their…
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most…
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of…
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
— Niels Bohr
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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