I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.