Your whole life informs your eye.

- Roger Deakins

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.

- Roger Deakins

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

- Roger Deakins

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 a…

- Roger Deakins

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

- Roger Deakins

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 th…

- Roger Deakins

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 …

- Roger Deakins

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 the…

- Roger Deakins

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 …

- Roger Deakins