The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From here to here, you can use this part. ….

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite..

You have to think of each stage of the movie and how it progresses, get into the state of mind of the character, and then match the camera to that, a….

Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to ….

If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone..

You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two men in a toilet on an airplane ….

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an adva….

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..

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 an….

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality..

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

I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was more mysterious, and delay until the ….

I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if….

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 d….

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 ….

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 th….

These days in movies you can always come back to a location or do an insert or do something, so that's not even an issue any more. But coming back ev….

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 y….

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 dar….

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

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive..