If you think it, the camera will see it.

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.

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.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

The ultimate hate speech is to endorse homosexuality.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.