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

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

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've managed to make a living in a very ridiculous business, and that's fine with me. The trick now is, after you've been in it for a while, you still have to remember to have fun.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.