Hey Eric, I was wondering if you were influenced (even though I'm sure Hours is vastly different) by any single location movies like Phonebooth, John Q or 127 Hours? Or did you avoid them to keep your story as original as possible? On the directing side, how was it shooting with newborns (or multiple newborns). Did it make scheduling a lot tougher? I'm not sure how many scenes the baby is actually in, but I imagine labor laws make it a challenge.

Hey Alan, I didn't look at other contained thrillers with Hours, and just tried to grow the story organically from the initial situation with the question of, "What would I do now?" each step of the way. So any comparison to other contained thrillers is likely borne out of the common denominator of being stuck in one location for a stretch of time. Shooting with newborns! Oh man, what a surreal experience. Laws are different for many states, but in Louisiana you had to secure the infant several weeks before the day of shooting, and since we needed a newborn that could seem small enough to be a premature baby, that meant I was looking through photos of day-old infants as well as pregnant mothers expected to have their child before the shoot date. We had a maximum of four hours (I think) per day to have the infant on set, and then there was a whole series of extra safety precautions needed, particularly securing the camera (which was directly overhead for several baby shots). The labor laws weren't the problem as much as the stress level of my crew when the infant was on set.