Greig Fraser

“As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.”

“Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.”

“The reason I loved doing films like 'Rogue One,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'Lion' was that there was enough breadth and difference in those projects to properly represent my interests.”

“It was very confronting after growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, then going to India. There's such a different emphasis on everything: food, family, hygiene, love, marriage. It's why it's so exciting, why it's so beautiful.”

“There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.”

“I've spent a lot of time in India. When I was a young cinematographer, I was completely enthralled by the color, the movement, the sounds. But photographically, it was very hard to capture it; photographs rarely did it justice.”

“The 'Batman' franchise is iconic and its a privilege to now be able to visualize it in my own way.”

“Trying to capture the essence of India is almost like trying to bottle magic, which is hard to do because India is so broad and diverse - it's controlled chaos. But there's spirituality and wholeness to the people.”

“Some of the films I've been most happy with have been the films that don't see a lot of traction.”

“Doing a 'Star Wars' TV show could be prohibitively expensive because 'Star Wars' requires a lot of prop building and a lot of character building, so we wanted to - with ILM's help - be able to make it a financially viable option to solve all the problems that you have with shooting a blue screen environment.”

“If you've ever experienced being in an Indian train station as the train pulls in, even as a six-foot adult, it's incredibly scary. You just have people storming at you, bumping around you, without any regard to your safety.”

“You first and foremost need to be honest with the script because you don't want to do anything to screw up the basic fundamentals of the story. You don't want to create anything overly dramatic when you don't need to, and you don't want to create anything less dramatic than necessary, either.”

“Every film that gets made, and I'm not just talking about 'Star Wars,' I'm talking about Marvel, DC, every tent pole film - they seem to just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. The worlds get bigger, the stakes get bigger.”

“If you go into a studio without a set effectively, you've got a blue screen. As a DP you have to light it of what you think it should look like. You don't have any reference of what the background looks like. You might have some concepts, but effectively you're lighting it as what you think it should look like.”

“A lot of the time, what happens is, when you shoot in L.A., you tend to be able to do things faster, believe it or not.”

“I had to forget a lot of 'Star Wars' when I was making 'Dune.' It wasn't hard, though.”

“I rewatched a lot of 'Star Wars' when I did 'Rogue One,' and the thing I learned was that as a young person, consuming 'Star Wars' at the level that I consumed 'Star Wars,' it kind of molds your visual psyche, so you see the world in 'Star Wars'-ian fashion.”

“This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I'm working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I'm working with another really good friend.”

“My daughter is a bit annoyed with me that she didn't get to meet Baby Yoda.”

“It sounds very hippy, I'm sorry, but like if you put something out to the world, you'll get the same thing back plus more.”