Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.

I often think off-screen horror is more effective, it's the fear of what is lurking around the corner, just out of sight, that can leave you on the edge of your seat.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.

I've always been attracted to the idea of ghosts being memories frozen in time, that a psychological haunting can be just as terrifying as a supernatural one.

I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.

Without grace, there is no gratitude.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

I have very nice cars. I never get to drive them, because I'm never home.

Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.