If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

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

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

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