Greig Fraser

“I mean listen, ultimately I'm positive George Lucas was inspired by 'Dune' when he made 'Star Wars.' I don't know if that's sacrilegious to talk about, but there are a lot of similarities in some areas, so you could tell he was definitely influenced by that.”

“Robert Pattinson is an incredibly gifted actor. Every role that Pattinson plays is a contender for an acting award.”

“The film business talks a lot. People talk a lot. There's a lot of chatting. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes chatting. There's a lot of talking before you go and do it.”

“Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.”

“When you're dealing with a shoot day that's costing somebody $300,000; when you're responsible for making that day; when you've got a half-million-dollar stunt that you've got to make sure you cover properly. You don't want to be doing that early in your career. You want to be making your mistakes when not many people are watching.”

“It's either some sort of a kismet or something that I've been offered a film like 'Zero Dark Thirty,' which I would have lined up to be the first one to watch that movie, had I not shot it.”

“Star Wars has built-in scale. Everybody understands it, we know the scale of the universe.”

“When you have the blue screen, you've got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor.”

“Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.”

“Whether you're shooting in India or on the Death Star, you're doing human drama.”

“It's never been my goal to do 'big' films because a big film in itself is not very interesting to me.”

“On a film, you work with somebody for four months and it's wonderful, but commercials it's like catching up with someone for a beer except you happen to shoot something at the same time.”

“Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.”

“I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.”

“I don't love big films for the sake of big films. It's not been a career drive to get to that point.”

“I did 'Vice' with Christian Bale and 'Foxcatcher' with Steve Carell - both of those films had significant prosthetic work. You do need to be cognizant of the fact that the material that you're photographing is not skin.”

“This is the great thing about my friends over at Lucasfilm: They are so committed to the highest quality product that they allow their DPs to come on well in advance of the shoot.”

“Where we shot in India, you could literally dump the camera off the back of the truck and you'd have an amazing shot.”