There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

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

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

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.

In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.