You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

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

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

Well I think effects are tools