Collet Quotes & Sayings

I dont want the world to see me, becuase i dont think they would understand. — Kellin Quinn

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

Judge looked over, his jaw clenched tight. I can't wait to fuck you until that sarcasm turns into begging. Decision made. Detective Michaels would be sent back to his office with his suspect but also thoroughly fucked. "Look, you don't have to keep eyeing me like that. Being gay ain't contagious, so unscrew your face." "Damn, — A.E. Via

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

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality. — Jaume Collet-Serra

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

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

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

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

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it. — Meg Collett

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ... — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be. — Timothy Keller

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

Never has my flabber been so completely gasted. — David Feherty

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

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive. — Jaume Collet-Serra

Whosoever believeth in His blood shall not perish. Those who believed Jesus came down from heaven got results when He was here because they knew He had divine blood, believed He was born of a virgin. He had the flesh of a human being, but the blood of divinity. — Ernest Angley

Fascism is a religious concept. — Benito Mussolini

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is. — Nhat Hanh

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

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

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

If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win. — Meg Collett

I 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

The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collet your soul and bring you to heaven. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

I can't change it now, and besides, I like who those years made me into, — Meg Collett

I will shoot on film as long as they make it. — Jaume Collet-Serra

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

We all possess the need to dream. — David Copperfield

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

Now the shepherds met together, according to custom, that they might send their monthly report about the flocks to the king; into their assembly he came having the ring on his finger, and as he was sitting among them he chanced to turn the collet of the ring inside his hand, when instantly he became invisible to the rest of the company and they began to speak of him as if he were no longer present. He was astonished at this, and again touching the ring he turned the collet outwards and reappeared; he made several trials of the ring, and always with the same result - when he turned the collet inwards he became invisible, when outwards he reappeared. Whereupon he contrived to be chosen one of the messengers who were sent to the court; whereas soon as he arrived he seduced the queen, and with her help conspired against the king and slew him, and took the kingdom. Suppose now that there were two such magic rings, — Plato

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. — Jaume Collet-Serra

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

Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots. — Jaume Collet-Serra

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