I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.

We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.

There's really no reason to rehash something that you've already seen.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.

... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.