"Here, within short distances, you will find black sand beaches, lack deserts, caves, green valleys, sulphur mountains, snow, glaciers, waterfalls and lakes. That is why Iceland has stood in for the Poles, Alaska, Greenland, Russia, Siberia, Minnesota, Iwo Jima, Himalaya, adding speculative lands of magic or the future."Filmkommissionären Einar Hansen Tómasson i Screen Daily om varför många utländska storfilmer spelas in på Island.
