The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

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

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.

Producing is great because you learn.

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.