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“May had no technical knowledge of filmmaking and faced galling misogyny (“You don’t have to know about lenses, little girl”) from a mostly male crew that likely had never worked under a female director. (She faced it from Matthau, too.) But, as Courogen makes clear, the crew had likely also never experienced direction from someone like May. When the cinematographer told the actress Renée Taylor to confine her performance to a narrow space, May told Taylor, “Don’t listen to him. You go wherever you want to go, you do whatever you want to do. And the camera will find you.” May rehearsed little, instead using the shoot as a vehicle for experimentation.”

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