Jackson on the challenges of filming in a foreign country:

"Well, I’ve shot in a lot foreign countries and it always presents little challenges. The challenge of this one is the Japanese culture - I’ve never been a culture that is so foreign to my own. Even traveling in the Middle east, traveling in Africa - and I’m not an educated or smart enough man to know why, but there seems to be a shared cultural background or assumption that even though we may not have a hell of a lot in common when I’m in Dubai, I sort of understand the way you interact with people, though I might not agree with it. When I was in Japan, the culture is so fundamentally different and just the basic level of human interaction is based upon different ideas and ideals that that was probably the hardest part. Like learning, as I said earlier like a cultural touchstone, because we’re not all starting from the same place. So we’ve got to find the thing that we agree on before we can start having a conversation. That was probably the hardest part."

On the differences between the remake and the original film:

"Beyond the male/female perspective being different, which is different, the major difference is that movie was a Thai movie with Thai actors, so they were already acclimated to the culture they were in. So the introduction of spirit photography was digestible for those characters, I guess. They would’ve already had a cultural reference point. If somebody came up to you and said, ‘We’re being haunted by a ghost. Look, it’s in the spirit photo,’ you’d be like, ‘Okay, alright.' By introducing Westerners into that mythology, the whole beginning to our story changes. You’re not only changing the gender perspective, but you have to bring the character into that mythology. The benefit to doing that is that you’re also going to be able to bring, hopefully, the audience into that mythology as well."

Jackson on his next project:

"It’s called Fringe. It’s J.J. Abrams’ next show and it’s a sci-fi show - if Shutter is just on the far side of the paranormal boundary, then this would be just on this side. It’s the science part of science fiction. Does that make sense? Like in the X-Files, the explanation is always, 'Well, it could be real or it could be some other thing.' You know when they’re dealing with the werewolf episode or the vampire episode, it’s an X-File so it’s quite possible that they’re just werewolves. But ours comes at it from the perspective that there’s a scientific explanation. But there’s so much more happening in our own physical world than what we’re seeing."

On returning to television:

"The entree was sort of the stamp of J.J. and Lost, which I love so much and then the script is just really excellent. It’s the same guys who wrote Star Trek for him and Transformers, so they’re pretty good [laughs]. The joys of working in television - when it is joyful - is that you get to tell a story over a long period of time. The joys of working in sci-fi is you get to tell any story you can possibly imagine. So you put those two things together, and if we get extremely lucky, you get something great like Lost. The difficulties of working on television is that it’s eighty-hour work weeks for nine-and-a-half months out of every year and that is tough. So knowing what I know now, it had to be something that I really wanted to do and this is something that I really wanted to do."

On whether he’s still involved with Fletch Won:

"No, Fletch Won is unfortunately going to die a lonely death for boring reasons. The rights are going to revert from one owner to another - hopefully some day they will make it and with that script, the Bill Lawrence script, which is really good and really funny. But I don’t think it’s going to be me and I don’t think it’s going to be soon."

Joshua Jackson and his favorite hockey team:

"The Vancouver Canucks. I can’t give up on the home team, even though they give up on me every year. [laughs]"