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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.