I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

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.

Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated liars in the world.

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.