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.

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.

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.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can.

The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.