Chris Kattan Quotes

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

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.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.

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

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

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

I really fight hard to make things film where they're supposed to be filmed. If something is supposed to be in New York, then it has to be in New York.

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.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

Shooting against greenscreen... my choice of filming is, like, I'd rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I'd rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.

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 don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.

If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie Boy, which that he had directed and written and which was great. We read another one of his scripts that was great. And we brought him in, showed him what we were doing. He really liked the idea.

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.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.