Roger Deakins Quotes

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, 'This is a heavy work of art.' If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don't.

I want to bring art into everything.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.

I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.