It’s always a challenge to shoot a period film and not have it look like you hit the tea stain button in post. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
So much of ‘Mudbound’ is about man’s relationship to the land and to the elements. It’s about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
I shot ‘Fruitvale Station’ on super-16, and then I shot a movie called ‘The Harvest’ on 35mm, and then I shot ‘Little Accidents’ on 2-perf 35. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
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 Morrison Read Quote
Lighting practically whenever I can when shooting period really helps with authenticity. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
It’s hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like ‘Mudbound.’ Rachel Morrison Read Quote
I love faces that have freckles. I love faces that have wrinkles. For me, beauty is naturalism, I guess. Rachel Morrison Read Quote
