Philip Kaufman Quotes

The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

I have done a lot of sci-fi, not out of choice, necessarily. It's just that I'm Canadian, and it's more cost-efficient to film sci-fi up here.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

Producers shoot movies where the tax incentives are.

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.

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

Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.

Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of their big bet. But with medium and small-sized films, outside production companies and financiers often foot the bill.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

Most American flags are made in China as you know.

Unfettered free trade has been a disaster not only for Americans but for the working people of Mexico and Canada as well.

The data on worker displacement after NAFTA reads like a funeral program for the middle class.