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Roger Deakins

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Film cinematographer

Roger Deakins is an internationally renowned cinematographer known for his unique visual style and masterful use of light and shadow. Since entering the film industry in 1975, he has participated in many classic films, such as 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'Blade Runner 2049', and '1917', bringing visual震撼 to audiences.

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“There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.”

Thinking Way Together Film Cutting Mood Standing Out Sequence Staging

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“I loved movies ever since I was a kid.”

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“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.”

Want Art Film Careers Happened College Builder

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“When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest dreams as a kid collided.”

Years Firsts Dream Kids Found Numbers Saws Surprise Shooting Features Documentaries Wildest Dreams

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“I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.”

Believe Happens Mystery Cameras Nonsense Cinematography Cinematographers

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“Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that.”

Knows Feels Firsts Persons Together Actors Pleasure Watches Shots First Person

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“If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.”

Ifs May Hands Film Depends Directors Benefits Projects Creating Shots Etc More Time Scratches Spontaneity Lighting Finesse

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“I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.”

Ideas Together Film Watches Missing Crew Printed Selected

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“I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.”

Looks Film Lost Concerned Subtlety Saturated

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“I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.”

People World Way Want Real Character Fantasy Study Scripts

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“When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.”

Knows Mean Reason Stories Moving Shots Standing Cameras Edges Storytelling Movie Roof Cinematography Cranes Standing On The Edge

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“To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.”

Ifs Feels Film Actors Situation Audience Pieces Achievement Photography Thrown Standing Out Lighting Pretty Picture

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“There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. But it's not necessarily right for the film — you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.”

Thinking Character Stories Bigs Might Film Moving Attention Draws Shots Surface Wow Spectacular Lighting Cranes Ostentatious

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“I am not a fan of having too much gear.”

Too Much Fans Gears

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“I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however it's done, is still the cinematographer's vision in my mind. People said the same when color film came in, didn't they? The world evolves, and image-making evolves.”

People World Mind Looks Said Stills Matter Done Film Vision Stupid Color Products Argument Finals Evolve Cinematographers

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“Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.”

Ifs Humans Said School Film Faces Difficult Interesting Photograph Most Interesting Interesting Things Film School Human Faces

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“The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.”

Thinking Way Feels Important Character Helping Actors Space Audience Balance Factors

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“Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.”

Thinking Important Bits Sound Life Experience Pretentious Technical Knowledge

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“Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.”

Knows Kind Mean Made Running Film Used Technology Used To Be Nostalgic

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“Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.”

Way Mind Has Beens Made Eye Shots Compromise

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“I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.”

Thinking Art Form Communication Filmmaking

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“All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as individuals.”

People Knows Trying Mean Stills Wanted Next Individual Audience Doors Documentaries

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“You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.”

Ifs Way Would Be Jobs Can Do Numbers Inspire Infinite Crafts My Way Just One Right Way Copying Inspire Others

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“Your whole life informs your eye.”

Whole Eye Whole Life

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“If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.”

Ifs Working It Reviewers

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About the Author

Born: May 24, 1949
Known for: Film cinematographer
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