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

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 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.

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.

But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.

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.