Roger is a master. If there’s a Mount Rushmore of DPs, he’d be right there in the middle. He goes about his work very modestly and quietly, but you learn so much from just looking. You realize that once you are in one of his shots, half your job is already done. - Ryan Gosling on Cinematographer Roger Deakins
Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.
“I love doing period films, because I like the magic of trying to recreate the world the way it was. However, I’d be just as happy to do a futuristic film, and to create our lives 100 or 200 years from now —like what this piece of land I live on right now would look like.”
