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

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

'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.

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

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.