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Roger Deakins Quotes

English - Director | May 24, 1949 -

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 before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.

Time Perspective Better Trying You

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something.

Attention You Go Nothing Big Move

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 briefly worked as a stills photographer.

Art College Way Photographer Always

I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

Loved Movies Kid Since Ever

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 West that was changing.

Place Kind Always West Changing Fan

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 the brothers were in London. We hit it off immediately, and suddenly I found myself on the way to America!

Myself Happy Moving America Done

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

Context Approach Genre Purely Films

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 flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.

Technology Money Me Think Now Run

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

People Seeing Always Within Interest

I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.

Forty Years Sentimental Something

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

Connection Career Want Never Arts

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

Art College Year Photographer Left

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