And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

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

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.