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" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "
Art
Formula
Cinematography
" A lot of male cinematographers stick a pillow to their stomachs so they have somewhere to rest their elbows while shooting. "
Stick
Pillow
Rest
" Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women. "
Enough
Funny
Most
" I always like to do sound design, and in movies, you have more leeway with that, but I don't really notice that sound design is being used in TV other than just location sound. "
More
Sound
You
" I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films. "
Make
Just
Easy
" I don't want to step on the DP's toes. That's the first lesson I learned when I started directing with other cinematographers. "
Step
Want
Lesson
" I feel like directing is more about who the individual is rather than if they're a man or a woman. It's kind of hard to generalize and group all of us female filmmakers into one group, like we're all going provide you with the same thing, because we're not. We're all individuals. "
You
Feel
Group
" I have been lucky in getting a lot of the projects I've wanted, maybe because I'm really, really driven. But there is a stigma that women can't direct big studio films. Not that I want to do that, but it is a topic that comes up a lot. "
Want
Lucky
Because
" I know how a cinematographer wants to be treated by their director, and so I already have a leg up in that department, and I know what would be insulting to say to a DP because I've been one for so long. "
Long
Know
Director
" In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I'm speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered. "
America
Experience
Feel
" In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do. "
Camera
Emotion
I Can
" I really hate having to put 'female' in front of any title, because it puts us in some kind of weird category for handicapped people or something. "
Hate
Weird
Us
" I think I subconsciously knew you needed life experience to direct, and the best films are directed by people who have really lived, with exceptions like Orson Welles, who just burst out of the gate. There are prodigies like that, but for me, personally, I thought I needed life experience. "
Best
Life
People
" I think it's a common misconception that because you're a woman, you can't command a set and have people respect you, and for some reason, Hollywood is really far behind every other industry. It's getting better; it's just slow. "
People
Better
Respect
" I've DP'd so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to believe in the story. "
Much
Believe
Know
" I was in film school as an undergrad with a focus on directing. Once I started working on shoots, I realized, 'Oh, I really like this cinematography thing.' "
Once
Film
Working
" My biggest wish is that I would have more time with my husband and my boys. "
Would
Wish
Time
" My family lives on Long Island. "
Island
Family
Lives
" No, I'm not doing 'Star Wars.' "
Star
Wars
Doing
" The instant feeling I had after I gave birth was you couldn't get that baby in my hands fast enough. "
Feeling
Enough
Baby
" The interesting thing about 'The Handmaid's Tale' is that everything that happens in it has happened or is happening somewhere in the world. "
Everything
World
Happens
" We moved around every winter. I don't know. Maybe my dad was, like, on the run from the law. "
Winter
Law
Like
" We're too complacent. We let things happen to us. And you don't have to let things happen to you. You can affect change. "
You
Things Happen
Change
" Whenever a woman wields a gun in a film, it ends up looking like they're trying to be sexy rather than they actually know what they're doing. "
Know
Looking
Sexy
" When it was time to go to college, I was going to apply to Boston University for journalism, and dad said, 'Why not apply to NYU film school, because you love telling stories and taking pictures?' And I thought, 'Oh, I can do that for a job? Cool!' "
Time
School
Job
" Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks. "
Women
More
Personality
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