I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

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

Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.

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.

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

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."