The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.