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 gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

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.

I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

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