Rachel Morrison Quotes

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.

When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.

Back-light is the cinematographer's friend.

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.

I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

I wanted to do films because I loved certain stories.

I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.