I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

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.

I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting.

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.