I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

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.

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.