When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.

I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world.