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

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.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

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.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.