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.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on the YouTube phenomenon where the violence is so immediate. Direct people need something stronger to respond to. I think that there's definitely a wave of directors - who are labelled the splat pack - who really, really care about making great scary movies.

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.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

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