When you raise the budget, you make creative compromises. The higher the budget goes, the more cuts in your movie happen. When people talk about how movies are watered down, that's a direct reflection of money and budget. The less money you spend; the more risks you can take. That doesn't mean it will be successful, but at least you can try different stuff. The higher your budget is, the less you can do that.

But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget. We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions, there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

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.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.