I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense. Roger Deakins More Quotes by Roger Deakins More Quotes From Roger Deakins I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated. Roger Deakins film lost looks I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy. Roger Deakins real character people I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened. Roger Deakins careers college art I loved movies ever since I was a kid. Roger Deakins kids 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. Roger Deakins something best accounting work 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. Roger Deakins everything me you time People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography. Roger Deakins pretty good cinematography people 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. Roger Deakins camera see mystery believe 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. Roger Deakins camera feel you way 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. Roger Deakins challenge stand unity together 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. Roger Deakins better you perspective time 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. Roger Deakins lamp look simplicity sitting I do think observing is important in learning. Roger Deakins think observing learning important I don't really like watching 3-D. Roger Deakins really watching like What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve. Roger Deakins thing hardest achieve simple 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. Roger Deakins challenge you achievement challenges 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. Roger Deakins always college way art 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. Roger Deakins fan place always kind 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! Roger Deakins myself happy way moving I don't approach films purely in context of genre. Roger Deakins context purely genre approach
