Lighting practically whenever I can when shooting period really helps with authenticity. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was studying photography, I became interested in conflict photojournalism, and that got me interested in lighting. Then I realized there… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her -… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story,… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual. It's dancing… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
You can only shoot small movies and documentaries for so long if you want to have a family that you support; eventually, you need… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
The first female DPs that I was aware of were Ellen Kuras, Mandy Walker, Nancy Schreiber, Amy Vincent, Sandi Sissel, Maryse Alberti and Tami… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
Authenticity, to me, is something that you feel, and if it doesn't feel authentic, you pick up on it right away. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
'Fruitvale' set the bar for what I wanted to do with my career, which was to make films that had consciousness and messaging in… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
We shot 'Mudbound' in the South in the summer, which meant we were working in extreme heat and humidity at all times and that… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
The biggest difference for me was that I operated almost every frame on 'Mudbound,' and I didn't operate on 'Black Panther.' — Rachel Morrison Copy Share
