I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

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

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

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.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."