I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.