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Reed Morano
1977 • American • Director
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Showing 60 quotesWhen you work as a cinematographer, the actors look to you for reassurance. When you're lighting them, they can never think you're making an adjustment because of the way they look. If they are nervous, it impacts their performance, which impacts the story.— Reed Morano
Most of the people I know in the film business here in New York, the moms and the dads, just take different turns working. So everybody's a working parent, and nobody bats an eyelash at it.— Reed Morano
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
When I read 'Meadowland,' I could see the potential for a very internal, quiet story that could be powerful and emotional but also disturbing and dark.— Reed Morano
As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.— Reed Morano
A sad truth I learned as a DP starting out was that it doesn't matter how beautiful I make it if the story and performance are not there. That should be number one.— Reed Morano
It can be insulting to an actor when the director comes out, and they have no notes on the performance, and all they care about is that the camera has to do this one technical thing.— Reed Morano
My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not like that all the time. Not every moment is dark.— Reed Morano
In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I'm speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered.— Reed Morano
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.— Reed Morano
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.— Reed Morano
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.— Reed Morano
We moved around every winter. I don't know. Maybe my dad was, like, on the run from the law.— Reed Morano