I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

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.

Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions.

Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.