I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

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

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on the YouTube phenomenon where the violence is so immediate. Direct people need something stronger to respond to. I think that there's definitely a wave of directors - who are labelled the splat pack - who really, really care about making great scary movies.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.