Reed Morano Quotes

Every scene is a challenge. There are technical challenges, but often it's the simplest challenge where you feel a sense of achievement when you pull it off.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

I learned first of all not to be intimidated by any visual effects that I don't understand. It can all be learned. You can then use them as tools to tell your story. I also learned that you have to be really vigilant, the more complex the movie, to not lose yourself and to not lose sight of the priority.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.