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.

I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

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

My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.

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