You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.