Roger Deakins Quotes

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs. It's not as though you do that enough and then graduate - you sort of need to make a conscious decision to work in a different way.

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

I've wanted to make movies ever since I was a kid. I knew that was my goal.

It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

Looking into my future, I don't always want to be in front of the camera. I want to be behind the camera and bring to life those family members of mine or people that I knew or the kids I grew up. I want people to know the different facets of black people, brown people, all people.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.

It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.