Vijay Krishna Acharya Quotes

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

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.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

I'll never forget travelling to New Zealand for three months to make the 'Underworld' films - that was pretty special.

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.

The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.

This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.

That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.

It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.

'Fast & Furious' is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they're doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important as the ones in front of the cameras. They are car enthusiasts. They live and breathe this world.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

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.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.

Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.