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Roger Deakins Quotes

English - Director | May 24, 1949 -

I don't really like watching 3-D.

Watching Like Really

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

Life Time Experience Filmmaking Side

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

Love Science Writing Possibilities

On 'Sicario,' we storyboarded key sequences but not everything.

I don't study any films. I'll watch them, but I don't study anyone else.

Study Watch Else Them Any Anyone

I couldn't imagine 'True Grit' in 3D. I think the idea is sort of absurd.

Think Grit True Imagine Absurd Idea

I think that lens flares can work really well under certain circumstances. Personally, I am trying to get rid of them most of the time. I don't like artifacts that draw attention to the surface of the image.

Work Time I Am Think Attention Lens

If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers' films, it's my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.

Change Create Mood Ability Anything

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a film about an 'around the world' yacht race with a friend, and we spent nine months on a yacht. The film was about how people get on in confined spaces under extreme stress.

Friend Stress War People World Race

The little town I was brought up in, I'd go to the film society to these very extreme sorts of films that you wouldn't normally see in the movie houses. But I never dreamed that I would get into the position to be shooting movies equivalent to the ones I loved as a kid.

Society Loved You Go Movies Never

I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular script, and they'll say, 'I want you to do this because I want it to look like Shawshank,' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm not that interested in doing that again.'

Love Reading Doing You Look Create

Some of what I consider my best work, and some of the best films that I've ever worked on, kind of disappear without a trace. There's no accounting for it. Something connects, or something doesn't.

Work Best Accounting Kind Without

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