Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

The spirit of life, the divinity of the soul.

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Have you heard that someone's dreams could be another's reality?

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.