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

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

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.

A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too.

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

I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like the bedroom or in your own intimate space. I think that's where you feel safest, so when you're threatened in the place you feel safest, it makes for the scariest situations.