When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

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.

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

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.

Drizzle happiness wherever you go.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

There is no one in the world that lives without sin.

It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.