You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

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

I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

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

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

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.