When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

I think none of the humor in the first Evil Dead was intentional. We weren't that sophisticated. We got more sophisticated with Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness where you can start to manipulate the audience a little more, having more control over the medium instead of just trying to figure out how to do it. I suppose that's pretty normal with any craft. Every carpenter is better 20 years later.

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

You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director can't just show up and go, well, where should I put the camera? That is gonna determine how it is lit, you should have already been in the room looking at it earlier, pre-lit the room, you know there is a lot of prep that goes into it, so it is the same thing with acting. You can't just show up.

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

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