As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

If you think it, the camera will see it.

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

Well, we went through a lot of names. But seeing as, musically, I wanted to swing through the jungle baring my arse, I thought Gorillaz was a perfect name.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.