English - Director | May 24, 1949 -
People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.
Roger Deakins
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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 important on every shot.
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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 lamp.
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What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.
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The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn't stand out.
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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 pull it off.
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I do think observing is important in learning.
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I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense - I want the director to see what I'm trying to do.
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I don't do that virtual reality stuff. I'm not even into 3D, actually... I've been offered it. I just don't want to.
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I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.
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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 and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.
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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 everything else.
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