If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors … - Roger Deakins

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I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence in my life, but I can't build any kind of spiritual structure on that.

Roger Deakins

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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