The key is you don’t want to control the controlled stuff too much and you don’t want to be too free flowing in uncontrolled situations. That can be a contentious issue with some directors. The joy of my career is I’ve gotten to work with great directors who get that balance. Greig Fraser Read Quote
Every single discussion I have with a first AD, or producers, is time of day. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve fought for early-morning calls. The light is 90 percent of our job; we as humans respond to light and where it is at different times of day and not only in positive ways. Greig Fraser Read Quote
I don’t love big films for the sake of big films. It’s not been a career drive to get to that point. Greig Fraser Read Quote
I remember borrowing my mum’s Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad. Greig Fraser Read Quote
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. Greig Fraser Read Quote
A perfect example is ‘Zero Dark Thirty.’ That’s the closest thing to reportage that I’ve done because a lot of that was shooting from the hip and found images and giving the actors a lot of freedom to explore the space and not have to repeat their actions twice and basically workshop on-camera. Greig Fraser Read Quote
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. Greig Fraser Read Quote
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. Greig Fraser Read Quote
It’s never been my goal to do ‘big’ films because a big film in itself is not very interesting to me. Greig Fraser Read Quote
