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, and keep making it tighter and tighter and crazier and crazier so people don't get bored. You know you cannot do a similar shot that you did at the beginning of the movie at the end.

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 advantage to be able to make those movies.

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

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

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 end the resolution of the mystery, and then have to deal with the plane itself.

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

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