Greig Fraser Quotes

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

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.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

I like to direct for the big screen.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.

It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.