Bill Condon Quotes

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.

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

I like going on location for films.

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

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.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

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.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

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

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 to make movies in Texas because that's where I learned how to do it. I know the industry there, I know the people, I know the crews. But it's hard to make films in Texas.

We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri.

You could cast nearly any movie in Brooklyn, and now you can film in Brooklyn - for you have studios.

I drove past one of the houses in Tiruvanmiyur and asked them if we could shoot there for 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya' because it seemed straight out of the pages of the script.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

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.