Greig Fraser Quotes

I am very much open to doing cinematography for any talented filmmaker, if the script is good.

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

The biggest difference for me was that I operated almost every frame on 'Mudbound,' and I didn't operate on 'Black Panther.'

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I've always wanted to be behind the camera in some capacity.

I was in film school as an undergrad with a focus on directing. Once I started working on shoots, I realized, 'Oh, I really like this cinematography thing.'

I like to work behind the camera.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.