The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

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.

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

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

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

Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.