Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can!

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

I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.