Underwater Filming Quotes

Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.

The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.

The scariest stunt I've ever done was on 'Captain America.' We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill up quickly in the submarine.

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.