Roger Deakins Quotes

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.