Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

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

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!