...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films