If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

Digital blood is not effective.

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.