It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

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.

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.

All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be right; you don't want to rush it. You need the right script, the right cast and the right feeling in the culture.