'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

What's important for me is staying healthy.

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

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