For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

One thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend I think the worse that they get.

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Time and space define the sacred moment.

I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.

True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.

So Fox News is the voice of America and Obama is Stalin? Oh my God! I guess that makes me Yakov Smirnoff.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.