I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

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.

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.