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

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

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

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.

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.