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Jaume Collet-Serra

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Film director

Jaume Collet-Serra, born on March 23, 1974, is a renowned film director from Spain. Known for his suspense and thriller films, his notable works include 'The Conjuring 2' and 'Get Out'. Collet-Serra is recognized in the film industry for his unique storytelling skills and mastery of tension.

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“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.”

Stories Happens Challenges Scripts Location

Author: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.”

Ends Wanted Past Moving Deals Mystery Disaster Mysterious Planes Resolution Airplane Delay

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“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.”

Has Beens Reason Film Havens Easier Cameras Size Shooting

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

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

Thinking Want Reality Certain Video

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Ends States Character Progress Stage Shots Cameras Bored State Of Mind

Author: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.”

Men Two Fighting Like You Evolution Offers Exciting Airplane Toilets

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“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.”

Issues Mess These Days Planes Location Coming Back Insert

Author: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.”

Thinking Enjoy Challenges Interesting Mystery Directors Very Interesting Thrillers

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“I will shoot on film as long as they make it.”

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Can Do Pay Too Much Importance Things Change Macs

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

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

Way Saws Hollywood Opposites Moved Disadvantages

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“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.”

Thinking Want Different Use Able Culture Advantage Studios Producers Different Cultures

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

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

Cameras Expensive Lenses

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“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.”

Needs Mean Persons Long Difficult Space Focus Cameras Distance Lenses

Author: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.”

Needs Has Beens Hard Three Focus Impossible Feet Modern Car Cameras Lenses Non Stop

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

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

Knows Want Looks Shooting Digital

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

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

Want Kind Kids Live Life Gangsters

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots.”

Bigs Shots Big Shots

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“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.”

People Ifs Littles Happened Like You Thousand Things Happen Shooting Little Things Platforms Lenses Subway

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“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.”

Knows Bigs Running Shots Extras Coming Out Big Shots

Author: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.”

Hard Use Hours Eight Stressful Deadline Subway

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

Ifs Bigs Process Horror Phones Cells Cell Phone Accounting Thrillers

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“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.”

Ends Imagination Darkness Horror Thrillers

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

“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.”

Knows Hard Would Be Next Actors Know How Terrible Sick Swim Swimming Schedules Next Day Swimmer

Author:Jaume Collet-Serra

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Born: March 23, 1974
Known for: Film director
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