All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.