As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.

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

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

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

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.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.