Top 36 Collet Quotes
#1. I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#2. The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From here to here, you can use this part. From this time to this time, you can use that part, and you have to hit them and it gets very stressful.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#4. Obviously 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-Serra
#5. I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#6. I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
Tananarive Due
#7. The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.
David Schwimmer
#8. You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two men in a toilet on an airplane which was very exciting.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#9. You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.
John Green
#10. 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.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#11. I would like congratulate everyone who was a part of 'Life of Pi.'
Anupam Kher
#12. When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#13. What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. Jewish proverb
Atticus Aristotle
#14. I can't change it now, and besides, I like who those years made me into,
Meg Collett
#15. I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#16. It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#17. I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.
Sean Bean
#18. If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.
Meg Collett
#19. Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#20. Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#21. You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.
Meg Collett
#22. If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#23. I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#24. You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#25. It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.
L. Frank Baum
#26. When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#27. 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.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#29. For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#30. Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
Adrienne Rich
#31. 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.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#34. As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.
Prince William
#35. 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.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#36. Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
Jimmy Carter
