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" 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! "

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" Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else. "

Roger Deakins

Film

You

Everything

" The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn't stand out. "

" People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography. "

" 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. "

" My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it. "

" I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense - I want the director to see what I'm trying to do. "

" I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot. "

" I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing. "

" I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me. "

Roger Deakins

Technology

Money

" 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. "

" If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic. "

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

" I do think observing is important in learning. "

" 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. "

Roger Deakins

You

Nothing

" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "

" What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve. "

" Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off. "

" I loved movies ever since I was a kid. "

" I don't really like watching 3-D. "

Roger Deakins

Really

Watching

" I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp. "

" 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. "

" I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments. "

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

Roger Deakins

Together

Mood

" 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. "