Roger Deakins Quotes

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

I prefer to watch people.

Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

I feel 'The Street' is a really accurate comment on the relationships between people.

Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

I love to see what real human behavior looks like. I've always envisioned my job as just observing and noting that and, for the purposes of my work, just cutting out the boring parts.

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

I've always been a keen observer of people.