Collaborate, don't dictate.

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.

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

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.

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

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

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.