Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

I'm a movement Nazi. It used to be my way before. Now, in the last three projects. I found a way to let the actors find their comfort and still find the precision in the show. It's a change in me.

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

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.

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

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.