73 Quotes by Rachel Morrison

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.

I love faces that have freckles. I love faces that have wrinkles. For me, beauty is naturalism, I guess.

Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of.

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.

There's something so inspiring about being in real locations, where you can feel the tactile qualities from the layer of paint that has been chipping off and the hundreds of years that have been lived in the space.

We really owe it to our world to infuse our entertainment with messaging.

I find beauty in imperfection.

I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.

When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting.