• She directed a 10-minute short based on her song “All Too Well”.
• The singer-songwriter said she would love to write and direct a feature.
• Swift: “I don’t see it being bigger in terms of scale.”

Taylor Swift, who also directed the music videos for her songs “Cardigan” and “Willow,” said, “It felt very natural to extend writing a song and visualising it in my head to making a shot list and storyboarding it and picking who we wanted as the head of each department and who would help put all of this puzzle together.”

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On “The Man,” a song from her 2019 studio album ‘Lover,’ the 32-year-old singer stated she began directing “almost out of necessity.”

“My first instinct was to write the treatment, send it out. I wanted a female director to direct it. And all of my favourite female directors were booked and busy, which is great. We love that. That’s fantastic. So I just figured maybe I could do it? I found it incredibly fulfilling.”

She also discussed the difficulties that female filmmakers confront.

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“I’m also extremely aware of my privilege when it comes to being a female filmmaker, because I was able to finance this film myself,” she continued, “I have to constantly be aware that, as much as it’s a constant challenge for me to be doing something new, I also understand that it’s still extremely hard for women to make films, and I am always keeping an eye on that reality.”