Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

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

What's important for me is staying healthy.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.