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Greig Fraser

(1975) Cinematographer

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Greig Fraser is a cinematographer.

Quick Facts About Greig Fraser

Born: October 3, 1975
Profession: Cinematographer

About Greig Fraser

[Wikidata] Australian cinematographer... | [Wikipedia] Greig Fraser is an Australian cinematographer. He received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Dune (2021) and two other nominations for Lion (2016) and Dune: Part Two (2024). He is additionally known for his work on The Batman (2022), The Mandalorian (2020), Rogue One (2016), The Creator

Quotes by Greig Fraser

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

Best

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There's a reason why Europeans take siesta in the middle of the day. It's not just because it's hot, but because it…

Day

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This is the great thing about my friends over at Lucasfilm: They are so committed to the highest quality product that they…

Come

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You first and foremost need to be honest with the script because you don't want to do anything to screw up the…

Create

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

Back

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I place 'Star Wars' on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these…

Like

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Google Earth has become a little bit of an icon in our society. You get on maps and you wanna see what…

Earth

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

Big

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I hate to do the same thing twice.

Hate

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Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what…

Art

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When you have the blue screen, you've got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have…

Actor

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I think I signed my left kidney to Disney and my right kidney to George Lucas.

I think

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Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension…

Audience

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

Forget

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It's been a dream to work alongside the talented team at Lucasfilm and ILM to make advancements and improvements to the filmmaking…

Dreams

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India has a natural brownness to it, a natural yellowness, a sepia tone to it, with the dust in the air.

Air

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On a film, you work with somebody for four months and it's wonderful, but commercials it's like catching up with someone for…

Beer

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

Batman

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I did a lot of prep for 'Rogue One' while I was working on 'Lion,' so I could take the skills I…

Apply

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The juxtaposition of India and Australia is such a great one to explore.

Australia

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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…

Career

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A perfect example is 'Zero Dark Thirty.' That's the closest thing to reportage that I've done because a lot of that was…

Dark

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The key is you don't want to control the controlled stuff too much and you don't want to be too free flowing…

Balance

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The good thing about India, and the good thing about Melbourne, is that it's very, very hard on this planet of ours…

Find

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

Big

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