Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.