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.

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.

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 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.

One sock can't house two feet. If it does, it’s of no use.

Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...

Reason is the enemy of faith.

The shovel is the brother to the gun.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.