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.

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

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

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.

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

You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.