You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

I think that's my favorite thing about making scary movies, watching people watch them. When my films come out, I like to cinema hop and know what moments are coming up, I pop my head in and watch people squirm or slide down in their seats. I like that sadism!

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.