Alex Cox Quotes

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.

I'm very open to making films anywhere in the world.

I like going on location for films.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date, and a lot of special things happen within those weeks.

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.

I like shooting locations just because too much control on the stage can be a bad thing.

So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.

I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

I don't like to shoot on sets at all. As much as possible, I try to shoot on location.

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.

I made a movie in Morocco. I made a movie in Brazil. I've made commercials all over the world. Every set looks like another set.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

When I signed on and went and did 'Catching Fire,' the majority of it was done in Atlanta for rebate reasons. Luckily, that worked because there's forest. There's old rail stations and factories and lots of stuff we can use and sound stages. For the tropical stuff, we went to Hawaii.