Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When you’re delivering your lines, he’ll stop you and tell you some kind of riddle about the character and you have to go away and figure that out. If you’re hoping for him to give you all the answers, then you’re in for a long day.

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

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

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

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

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.