There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

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

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

Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.

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.

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

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