I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.