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.

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

I'm a believer in screening movies early, and using the movie itself to help sell the movie. If you can't do that, I feel like you shouldn't be releasing the movie.

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