You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.

My films do very well on home video.

If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.