Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

But before you set out to make your mark, you should ask yourself, "For whom will this be done?

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.