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

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.

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

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

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.