I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

Currently there's no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with Universal, and it's been fun to work with them. But studios are a part of our life. I think they'll always be, but they'll play a different role. The consumer and the creator are getting closer together.

I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.