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TIL Roger Deakins, Director Of Photography for films like Skyfall and No Country For Old Men stopped shooting documentaries because he witnessed a schizophrenic woman have an episode and his parter wanted to keep filming. Deakins instead decided to put the camera down and help the woman.

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