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.

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

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

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

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

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

Nothings ever real until its real.