Rachel Morrison Quotes

I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.

For me, it's always about the work and the stories I'm telling and the slices of life I feel should be illuminated.

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive.

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

When you make a film, it's because it's important to you, it means something to you.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

I like the purity of telling stories now because not a lot of people are telling stories in their music. I wanna tell my specific story: what I see right now.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

You do your best to tell your own story, in the most specific way, and then you hope that that travels well, when it's done with heart and honesty.

There's nothing better than a personal story.

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.