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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Those who Discover the High Sea are the ones who are FREE to Be what they Want to Be.

In this life you will have some trials and tribulations. You cannot allow what happens to you to dictate who and what you become. Make a decision to do better and be better.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.