Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.