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.

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

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.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him!

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.