Jaume Collet-Serra Quotes

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.

Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason not to, which I haven't had yet.

You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two men in a toilet on an airplane which was very exciting.

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.

I will shoot on film as long as they make it.

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.

It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.

Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.

Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.

Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they don't know. They're just coming out.

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.