Roger Deakins Quotes

It's a very tricky job we have as DPs, where you are expected to make something that really is an emotional art but also needs to be technically spot on. You're often given a very small window of time to achieve it. People sometimes expect it to be even quicker and forget that there's a schedule for a reason.

I learned first of all not to be intimidated by any visual effects that I don't understand. It can all be learned. You can then use them as tools to tell your story. I also learned that you have to be really vigilant, the more complex the movie, to not lose yourself and to not lose sight of the priority.

I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

It is a challenge to direct any film.

Scorsese has very defined ideas about how to shoot a scene, and he's an editor himself - we cut together. It means he's constantly thinking about my problems while he's filming.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.