Bailey Chase Quotes

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

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I like going on location for films.

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!

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

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

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 did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

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

Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.

I don't really make films in Denmark. 'Bronson' was shot in Rottingham, 'Valhalla Rising' was made in Glasgow, and 'Drive' was made in Hollywood.

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

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

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 don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

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

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.