You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

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

If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

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

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.