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.

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.

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.

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

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

This is only a work of fiction, The Truth as always will be far stranger

My deservedness is more than your expectation.

I live by never saying what if?...

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.

I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.