Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.

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

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

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.

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