There’s so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don’t get the recognition. Roger Deakins Read Quote
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.’ Roger Deakins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Roger Deakins Read Quote
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. Roger Deakins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
