Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

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."

Well I think effects are tools

I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.

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.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."