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13 quotes by Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins Deakins at the 83rd Academy Awards, 27 February 2011 Born Roger Alexander Deakins (1949-05-24) 24 May 1949 (age 65) Torquay, Devon, England, UK Nationality British Other names Roger A. Deakins Occupation Cinematographer Years active 1984–present Spouse(s) Isabella James Purefoy Ellis  (m. 1991) Roger Alexander Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC (born 24 May 1949) is an English cinematographer best known for his work on...
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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... →

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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 was younger, and I... →

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I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about... →

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I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

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

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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 are really... →

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I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the... →

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If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is... →

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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 the time and... →

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There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but that's much more to do with the staging and the cutting... →

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I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

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I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got approached about Barton Fink, because my agent said... →

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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, wow, that's... →

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