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

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

Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.

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.

The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.