I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.

The church and every Christian are individually responsible for the reformation of the country

The Americans called theirs the Officers Club but the Canadians called ours the Officers Mess. The American term was the more honest

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.