Jaume Collet-Serra

These days in movies you can always come back to a location or do an insert or do something, so that's not…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

I will shoot on film as long as they make it.

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

You have to think of each stage of the movie and how it progresses, get into the state of mind of the…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow.…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

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

— Jaume Collet-Serra

For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously…

— Jaume Collet-Serra