The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

If you think it, the camera will see it.

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

May every soul find the privilege of repentance and the grace of forgiveness.

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

don't want to regret than don't forget to enjoy

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.

Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.