I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

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.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.