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 DeakinsI do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.
Roger DeakinsI don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.
Roger DeakinsThere are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats 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 DeakinsThere'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 โ you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.
Roger Deakins