There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.