For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

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.