Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever.

Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.