I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone else's, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.