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

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

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.

People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.