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

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

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.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

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