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

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.

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

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.

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.