As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

Be yourself, DO NOT ACT.

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

If we walk with Him closely today, we'll be in the center of His will tomorrow

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.