I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.

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.

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

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.

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

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.