My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.

It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.

Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace.