Mike Newell Quotes

'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.

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.

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

The craziest place I've probably ever visited while filming would have to be Jordan. I did a small test shoot for a test movie. We arrived in Jordan, and we stayed in Amman for a night. Then we drove down for three hours into the middle of the Wadi Rum Desert, which is in the absolute middle of nowhere. It was insane.

I did a few documentaries as co-director and cameraman. I started off shooting a film about the war in Rhodesia. Then I did a film about an 'around the world' yacht race with a friend, and we spent nine months on a yacht. The film was about how people get on in confined spaces under extreme stress.

Unless it's a song and something fancy, I would rather shoot on location.

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

Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.

Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

Portland is a two-hour flight from L.A. It has wonderful talent, and it hasn't been shot to death. I'm all in favor of it becoming a serious player in the industry.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

When you're able to shoot in Europe and internationally, those locations don't lie. The feeling doesn't lie, the quality of the light. You can always tell when it's shot in London.

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.

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

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

I used Malta as a location to shoot a lot of my action sequences, and that's because we don't have the kind of setup that Malta Film Studios does. They have a world-class facility.

Modeling and my films in the South helped groom me for Bollywood and I had the confidence it required.

Where we shot in India, you could literally dump the camera off the back of the truck and you'd have an amazing shot.

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs.

When I was at the South Pole, the coldest it got - and I didn't go outside - was minus 111. That was during the winter, so it's dark 24 hours a day, and for some of our jobs, we are required to go outside, even in weather like that.

I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real life, things don't work the way you expect them to. I realized that I could express my ideas better through films.

Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film.

I really like shooting in real locations.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.