I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

One thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend I think the worse that they get.

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.

I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.