DECLAN QUINN - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

Tv & Film, Filmlighting, Deakins, Movies, Filmmaking, Production, Film, Cinematography, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Cinematographer Declan Quinn (HAMILTON, LEAVING LAS VEGAS, MONSOON WEDDING) speaks with Team Deakins on this episode of the podcast. A first generation immigrant from Ireland, Declan first reflects on his youth bouncing between America and his family’s home country. We then ruminate on Declan’s decision to spend part of his early career in Ireland and on the function of pubs as watering holes wherein a young filmmaker could, back when Roger and Declan were starting out at least, find a community with which to celebrate and commiserate over work and life. Later, Declan shares his experiences working with directors Mike Figgis and Neil Jordan and on the myriad of other films he helped bring to life. Towards the end, Declan describes the process of Broadway captures and how he filmed HAMILTON at the height of its popularity with its original cast.

This episode is sponsored by Fiilex

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us,
0:16.0	so listen in and see where it goes.
0:19.0	This episode is sponsored by Philex, a California-based lighting company with close to 40 years of in-house lighting and expertise.
0:30.0	Philex is known for their LED color franels ranging from the smallest
0:35.4	philex Q3 to the largest philex Q10 and they set the gold standard in the
0:41.5	motion picture industry with precise color science, brightness, and
0:46.2	beam shaping. Philex recently launched a new LED color ellipsoidal called the phylex g3 which can make razor sharp cuts.
0:57.0	Today we're speaking with the cinematographer.
1:02.0	His credits include
1:03.4	leaving Las Vegas Black 47 and Hamilton. We're pleased to welcome
1:08.9	Declan Quinn. Declan thank you for doing this. Hi Declan welcome. Thank you thank you for doing this. Hi, Declan, welcome.
1:13.6	Thank you.
1:14.6	Thank you for the honor to be doing it.
1:16.4	Thank you.
1:17.4	We'd like to start with our normal question, which is, how did you get to where you are today?
1:22.1	Was this an interest that you had as a kid? Or did you get to where you are today? Was this an interest that you had as a kid?
1:24.6	Or did you find it later?
1:25.8	Did you go down another path and then turn into the film business?
1:29.4	What's your story?
1:31.6	Yeah, I guess my story's kind of a first generation immigrant story a little bit.
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