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.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

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

I like to get the audiences cozy in their seats, feeling safe, and suddenly they'll be shocked out of their minds.

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.

Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.

You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.