I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

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

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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.