73 Quotes by Rachel Morrison

I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

It's hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like 'Mudbound.'

I didn't want 'Mudbound' to feel stylized in any way.

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

The big trick is just to get to a point where we're just considered DPs, and we're not 'female DPs.' When you think of the word 'doctor' or 'teacher,' you don't think gender. And it would be nice to get to a place where 'DP' meant either and 'director' meant either and 'gaffer' meant either.

My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.