There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.