You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

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

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

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

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?

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.