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.

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.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.