In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

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

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'