The world is changing. Social media is a way to sell movies and to build a fan base. The truth is that you have followers because they know you are into it and you're funny and you like it. I think it's great.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

Shooting at Quentin Tarantino movie was like a masterclass in directing. Although I went back literally right into rehearsal, started shooting... while I was doing it I had to write my Grindhouse trailer and I added two days of shooting. My brother was producing Hostel and the Grindhouse trailer and I was like: "Gabe, just figure this out!"

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

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

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.