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.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

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

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

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!