Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

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

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

Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.