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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.