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

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.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Once you understand life--you understand life's potential.

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Very little happens in my books.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.