I take things from everywhere, and I still haven't figured out where I took [some things] from.

Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

I think the more honest you are with the storytelling, the better it works.

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.

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.

Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.