The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

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

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

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

'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.