It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.

I had been going out to Orient for several years.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.