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Roger Deakins

Profession : Director

Birth : May 24, 1949

I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got approached about Barton Fink, because my agent said the brothers were in London. We hit it off immediately, and suddenly I found myself on the way to America!

Roger Deakins

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

Roger Deakins

I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.

Roger Deakins

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

Roger Deakins

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

Roger Deakins

I don't really like watching 3-D.

Roger Deakins

I don't do that virtual reality stuff. I'm not even into 3D, actually... I've been offered it. I just don't want to.

Roger Deakins

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

Roger Deakins

On 'Sicario,' we storyboarded key sequences but not everything.

Roger Deakins

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

Roger Deakins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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