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

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 every day to the same plane, it messes with your head.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like 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 end the resolution of the mystery, and then have to deal with the plane itself.

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

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

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 yet.