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.

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.

Let us be kind. It is the simplest way to touch someone's heart.

Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.

Forget to smoke and drink alcohol. Start drinking the morning sunshine, pure breeze, and unconditional love. It is a much better way to get drunk.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

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