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Roger Deakins

I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

I’ve always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It’s just about making images, really.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

There’s so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don’t get the recognition.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

Some of what I consider my best work, and some of the best films that I’ve ever worked on, kind of disappear without a trace. There’s no accounting for it. Something connects, or something doesn’t.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular script, and they’ll say, ‘I want you to do this because I want it to look like Shawshank,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, I’m not that interested in doing that again.’

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

The little town I was brought up in, I’d go to the film society to these very extreme sorts of films that you wouldn’t normally see in the movie houses. But I never dreamed that I would get into the position to be shooting movies equivalent to the ones I loved as a kid.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a film about an ‘around the world’ yacht race with a friend, and we spent nine months on a yacht. The film was about how people get on in confined spaces under extreme stress.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers’ films, it’s my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

I couldn’t imagine ‘True Grit’ in 3D. I think the idea is sort of absurd.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

I don’t study any films. I’ll watch them, but I don’t study anyone else.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

On ‘Sicario,’ we storyboarded key sequences but not everything.

– Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

– Roger Deakins

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