All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

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

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.