Movie Setting Quotes

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

The No. 1 place I've visited so far was Antwerp, Belgium. That was one of the coolest cities I've ever seen. Every day I woke up, I felt like I was in a movie.

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.

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

There have been number of films that have been made with Mumbai as a backdrop or a character. 'Company,' 'Life In A Metro,' 'Ek Chalis Ki Last Local' - they all have presented Mumbai in a different manner.

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

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

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

I guess it seemed like a natural thing to set 'AvP' in the world of the Alien, rather than the world of the Predator. I always liked the idea of it being on earth.

I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.