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

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.

Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the catering costs. I just don't like the process of having Suits all around, so I prefer casting unknowns. It adds another level of tension - you don't quite know what to expect from them. My movies don't even need that much money.

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

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.

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

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