Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

There are the horror fans that love the Evil Dead because of the humor, but I’m sure it’s not all of them. Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Choose to live by faith and not fear

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.