I really had the right nose for making the right decisions, in terms of which projects to do and which projects to stay away from. The people that I ended up becoming very close to in my career are the guys who inspire me.

Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.