Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

Theres just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and theres something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, youre usually going to have a good time.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.