Describing the restaurant as dark and atmospheric he recalled Minogue entering the room “like a beam of light”.
“It sounds cheesy to say, but she really was. There was an energy there that was intoxicating,” he told BBC NI’s Evening Extra radio programme.
“And then I thought, I do want to make this film. I am the right person to do it.
“I could tell there was an energy from her that I wanted to take and transfer onto film and if we can do that successfully, I think the film could be really special.”
The three-part Netflix documentary, KYLIE, charts Minogue’s journey from teenage soap star on Neighbours to one of pop music’s most enduring performers.
Battsek and Harte had worked together previously on the David Beckham documentary.
Harte had also edited the acclaimed Michael J. Fox documentary Still – before stepping into the director’s chair for KYLIE, having directed only once before during the Covid-19 Pandemic.