It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all.....not by force, but by grace.

Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.