If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.