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.

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.

One thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend I think the worse that they get.

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

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

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.