I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie.

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

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

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 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.

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

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