I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.

Quit taking life so seriously. It isn’t a test.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

As far as liberals are concerned, the Democrats are concerned, when the New York Times clears you, you are cleared.