It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself.
I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.