If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.