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

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

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror

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

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

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.