My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.