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.

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.

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.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

God made me on a morning when he had nothing else to do.

A false tale often betrays itself.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for that early stage of support for things.

Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.