I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

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.

I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.

You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

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