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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

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Jaume Collet-Serra
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 23
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