Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

The only difference between us and the animals is our ability to accessorize!

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.