"I think of filmmaking as a form of……" — Roger Deakins
"I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide."
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20 Quotes by Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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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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You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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