America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

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

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

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.

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.