15 Roger Deakins Quotes for You to Enjoy

Roger Deakins

English Director

Born: May 24, 1949

Always Films Think Time Work You

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I do think observing is important in learning. Roger Deakins

Learning Important Think Observing

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

People Seeing Had Environments Within Always Interest

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

Art College Year Photographer Still Art College Left

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

Key Everything

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

Think True Absurd Idea Sort Grit Imagine

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. Roger Deakins

You Society Films Extreme Kid Would Dreamed See Brought Never Town Sort Houses Equivalent Go Up Very Normally Get Shooting Movie Loved Little Movies Little Town Film Position

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

Work Best Films Consider Kind Best Work Some Something Disappear Trace Without Accounting Worked Connects Ever

I don't really like watching 3-D. Roger Deakins

Like Really Watching

What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve. Roger Deakins

Simple Achieve Seemingly Simple Thing Hardest Actually Thing

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. Roger Deakins

Work Me Together Think Films Everything Way Mood Out Some More Staging Cutting Much Stand Sequence Thing

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. Roger Deakins

You Big Nothing Worse Draws Wow Some Something Attention Lighting Go Itself Than Move Oh Might Shot Spectacular Ostentatious

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

Art College Way Photographer Suppose Fairly Always Came Traditional Traditional Way Art College Up Wanted Younger Worked Really

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 Big Way Immediately Out London Brothers About Because Said Got Were Off Hit Big Movie America Done Movie Moving Moving Out Agent Suddenly Found

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