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.

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

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.

Live for everything, or die for nothing

Love, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness are the secrets of all peace and happiness.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Jest with your equals.

I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the other.

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.