Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.

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

I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can!

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