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

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

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.

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

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.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.