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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.