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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Reed Morano

Best

Life

People

" The instant feeling I had after I gave birth was you couldn't get that baby in my hands fast enough. "

" I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Reed Morano

Hate

Weird

" A lot of male cinematographers stick a pillow to their stomachs so they have somewhere to rest their elbows while shooting. "

" My biggest wish is that I would have more time with my husband and my boys. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Reed Morano

Women

Personality

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I'm speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered. "

" No, I'm not doing 'Star Wars.' "

" 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. "

" My family lives on Long Island. "

" A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula. "

" 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. "

Reed Morano

Sound

You

" The interesting thing about 'The Handmaid's Tale' is that everything that happens in it has happened or is happening somewhere in the world. "

" We moved around every winter. I don't know. Maybe my dad was, like, on the run from the law. "

Reed Morano

Winter

Law

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women. "