If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.

The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

If you think it, the camera will see it.

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.

Rare is not synonymous with valuable.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.