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.

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.

It is impossible to love someone you do not respect, but there can be mutual attraction without mutual respect.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

Every child who is born is the universe looking at itself with fresh eyes.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

I have a sweet tooth. I love dessert, and if somebody makes me one, I'm going to have it.

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