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.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

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

Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

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

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.