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.

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

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

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

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.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.