If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

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

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

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.

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.