A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.Rachel MorrisonTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
“The only consistency in the work I do is that I try to use cinematography to best tell the narrative and do justice to the character arcs, but not to do it in such an overt way that people are distracted by it.”Rachel MorrisonCinematography
“You just sort of get used to being one of the only women on set, so it's really refreshing to start to enter a time when that's not the case anymore.”
“I had done it all in my career. I always felt, as a kid, that that's what a director needed to be. Hitchcock could do anything in my mind. He's the director. That person has to be the best actor, the best designer, the best cinematographer. Then I came to realize that isn't the case. You just need to surround yourself with the best.”Genndy TartakovskyCinematographer
“It was cinematographer George C. Williams who first told me about 'Sakhavu.' He said that the script was good and asked me to listen to it. Later, Sidhartha Siva called me and narrated the script over the phone.”Aishwarya RajeshCinematographer
“Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.”Rachel MorrisonBroader
“Having a family is a compromise on some level, but it's so incredibly worth it. It actually informs the work that I do as a DP.”Rachel MorrisonCompromise
“When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.”Kiran RaoCinematographer
“There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.”Greig FraserCinematographer