I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.

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