My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
The first female DPs that I was aware of were Ellen Kuras, Mandy Walker, Nancy Schreiber, Amy Vincent, Sandi Sissel, Maryse Alberti and Tami Reiker. You look for a role model as somebody who looks like yourself and is doing what you want to do; they were the handful. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
To me, as an audience member, movies always come to a screeching halt when they get to their action scenes. They always feel like they drag on to me. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual. It’s dancing with the actors and responding to their body language, and you feel what the right place for the camera is at any given moment. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
I think there’s this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don’t know that that’s the case for me, so we’ll see. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
