There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting.

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

I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

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

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

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