I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

I need to create a whole cinematic experience. I think that's what it takes to get the audience to the theater and justify seeing [a movie] on a big screen. You have to give them a cinematic experience.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.