Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.
Jaume Collet-SerraIf you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.
Jaume Collet-SerraI think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.
Jaume Collet-SerraObviously 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.
Jaume Collet-SerraI 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 a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.
Jaume Collet-Serra