There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might … - Roger Deakins

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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 that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. But it's not necessarily right for the film — you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.

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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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